Getting Started

Where Are We? The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Dunning-Kruger Effect: Before the AI Product Manager Bootcamp officially begins, let's locate where you are on the learning curve.

Learning Curve
Dunning-Kruger Effect curve
📍 Some of you may be here
😰 Inevitable after hands-on work
🎯 Course goal
Three Stages
1
Peak of Mount Stupid
📍 Some of you may be here
Just getting started with AI and feeling "I get it": ChatGPT is just chat, RAG is just search, Prompt is just talking.
2
Valley of Despair
Inevitable after hands-on work
Once you start building, you find models give incoherent answers, Prompts don't work, RAG underperforms — and you can't help thinking "Why is AI so hard to use?"
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Plateau of Sustainability
🎯 Course goal
Truly understanding what AI is doing — able to diagnose where the problem lies and choose the right solution.
Weakness and ignorance are never obstacles to survival — arrogance is.
Arrogance is the greatest enemy of growth. Reaching the Plateau of Sustainability does not require knowing how to code, but it does require letting go of "I already get it" and genuinely understanding the underlying logic.