The bank has said it openly
DBS is phasing out about 4,000 contract and temporary roles over three years as AI takes on work previously done by humans.
A hands-on, no-code masterclass for product owners who must judge AI output and govern AI delivery.
You do not need to build the model. You need to judge it, spec it, and stop it from drifting. Three days of model fluency, specifications as requirements, and evals as acceptance criteria.
“He holds the sole-inventor patent for LLM agent systems, granted in 2023, and has spent close to two decades delivering technical training. He has hand-built AI systems for classified environments where the public internet does not exist. In this masterclass, he shares the architecture, his working methods, and the deployment blueprints drawn from completed projects, compressed into 3 days of intensive, hands-on learning.”Prebook the Product Owner Masterclass
Cohorts of 10 to 25, and seats are running out. Prebooking is free; you pay by invoice only when your cohort is confirmed.
The Real Problem
A demo is the best output the vendor could produce, edited. Your users will get the average output, not the demo.
Without defined criteria for good output, every review is a taste argument you lose.
Buy versus build decisions get made on brochures. Cost modelling makes the decision boring, and boring is reliable.
Gartner expects over 40 per cent of agentic AI projects to be cancelled by end 2027, killed by cost, unclear value, and weak controls.
Hundreds of courses, the same recycled content. The trainer sat through them too, and now teaches exactly the part they all skip.
Certificates confirm attendance. The concepts that matter live only in the trainer's head. Here, they live in yours.
Do these sound familiar? Judgement is the fix that keeps projects funded.
The Trainer
The playbook behind every masterclass was bought with years of production attempts and hard failures. The count of the wall is the lesson, and it is the first thing he teaches.
More than a hundred students in Singapore completed this similar AI training this year. The format is proven with a live audience.
The sole-inventor patent for LLM agent systems, granted in 2023. The legal and logical foundation of modern agents.
18 years of compute on GPUs, back when the field was called HPC, long before AI became a marketing buzzword.
Teaching engineers has been the day job for more than twenty years. Training is the craft, not a side engagement.
25 years across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises bare metal, including air-gapped environments few engineers ever see.
Small cohorts keep the help personal. Seats are running out fast.
Past students say the most valuable part is simple. You get to ask a human who has done a few things successfully before.
Why Now
DBS is phasing out about 4,000 contract and temporary roles over three years as AI takes on work previously done by humans.
About 4 in 10 of those affected by the GovTech cuts were officers in their 40s.
75 per cent of all new code at Google is now AI-generated, reviewed and approved by engineers.
40 per cent of the workforce will need reskilling within three years because of AI.
AI now helps read CT scans, yet imaging demand grew even faster and radiologist vacancies stayed high. When AI makes something cheaper, the world orders more of it.
Klarna let an AI assistant do the work of 700 service agents, then rehired people when quality slipped. The winners are the humans who can direct the AI.
None of these companies failed. They restructured, and loyalty no longer shields anyone. PwC’s 2026 jobs barometer finds roles professionalised by AI growing twice as fast as the rest. Be the one directing the machines, not the one replaced by them.
The Curriculum
| Day | Morning | Afternoon | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | You learn what large language models can and cannot do, hands-on, with no code anywhere. Model selection for products follows, with cost modelling for real workloads. | The afternoon covers build versus buy decisions and the multimodal possibilities most product plans miss. | Judge the Machine, No Code |
| Day 2 | You write specifications that act as product requirements, precise enough for agents to follow and for humans to review. | Evals become your acceptance criteria, and you practise governing agent delivery without reading every line of code. | Spec It, Then Govern It |
| Day 3 | Risk and governance come together, including the cancellation trap and how strong projects avoid it. | The capstone is a product spec with acceptance evals, written by you for a real feature, plus a roadmap masterclass. | Ship It Responsibly |
Each day comprises approximately 25% guided sessions, 60% hands-on labs on a real task, and 15% structured reflection. The table above is an example. Actual content includes more practical material than described, may differ slightly as it tracks the latest industry trends, and is refreshed right up to each cohort. The exact setup guide will be shared one week before Day 1.
Before You Arrive
Standard or Custom
Standard
Custom
Prebooking is free. You pay by invoice only when your cohort is confirmed.
The Outcomes
First-hand fluency in what models can and cannot do, no code needed.
Specifications precise enough that agents and vendors build the right thing.
Acceptance criteria a machine can test, so quality stops being an argument.
Cost modelling that turns vendor claims into decisions.
Oversight of agent delivery without micromanaging engineers.
A complete spec with acceptance evals, written for your own product.
Walk out able to say yes and no to AI output, with reasons.
Masterclass Menu
The Foundation Course is the shared entry, running every weekend. Each masterclass below runs as a 3-day weekday specialist course, in a Standard open cohort or a Custom private cohort for your organisation.
Technical Track
Technology Track
Manager Track
Leader Track
Functional Track
OPC Track
You bring the domain expertise. We bring the engineering discipline. Own the outcome, not the hype.
Prebook
Prebooking is free and takes two minutes. You get 48-hour priority access to the next cohort of 10 to 25 each, and we confirm dates, venue, and your invoice before any payment. Built for product owners and managers who sign off AI features.
This is not only about confidence with AI. It shapes your job, your career, your team, your projects, and the example your children grow up with. Choose the building side while the choice is still yours.
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