Ahead of MEGA's scheduled Oct. 26, 2026, kickoff, instructor Theo Browne urged developers to ask their employers to pay for his AI course. “Don't buy this course. Get your boss to buy it,” he wrote on Oct. 19, adding that a workplace education budget would also work. In an earlier reply, he warned readers not to put themselves in a bad financial position to take it.
Browne called it his first paid course and quoted $1,300 per seat. MEGA's program page instead displayed $1,290 beside a choice of a one-time payment or two installments. Browne said he made the course to cover building with AI in real-world code bases, a subject he felt would not fit his YouTube videos.
In his description of the intended audience, Browne said the course focuses on applying existing engineering knowledge to building with AI and would not be very useful to someone who is not yet a full-time developer. He also described it as a deeper course on using AI at work. MEGA calls it a four-week online program for developers who already build with AI, aimed at mid-level and senior developers working with agents.
MEGA's published schedule runs from Oct. 26 through Nov. 22, 2026, with kickoff listed for 2 p.m. ET on Oct. 26. The plan calls for 20 lessons and one 60- to 90-minute live workshop with Q&A each week. Its curriculum assigns Core and generative AI to Browne, Agents to Angie Jones, Product to Kent C. Dodds and Takeoff and autonomous systems to John Lindquist.
