What do others feel about this course?

Reddit r/artificial / 4/25/2026

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Key Points

  • A Reddit user shares skepticism about a course promoted by an influencer, claiming its credibility is questionable despite impressive-sounding titles and industry affiliations.
  • The post disputes the instructor’s qualifications and mentions allegations of “grifter” behavior on platforms like TeamBlind, suggesting some peers view her critically.
  • The user points to sales figures for the course and argues that marketing and perceived “aura” may drive purchases more than genuine expertise.
  • They include an example of the course description featuring a laptop and book giveaway for a “non coders” cohort, using it to illustrate concerns about promotional tactics.
  • The author advises readers—especially PMs trying to upskill in AI—to be cautious of aggregators/scams and to rely on original sources rather than review summaries or repackaged claims.

One of my colleague suggested a course as it was suggested by her favorite influencer.

Its on maven aishwarya-srinivasan/mastering-ai-agents.

A little research on her Qualifications:

Graduated at VIT ( A college for rich people who cannot get into any other college in India)

MS DataScience at Colombia (50% acceptance rate). 1 year degree or 1.5 year w/capstone.

2 Years at IBM in Data Science. (not a researcher). No Publications.

Then She's AI Advisor guru at Google, and 70+ other companies, god knows how, this part blowed my mind.

And titles such as Senior AI Advisor , which don't exist in those companies. TeamBlind Blasts her as grifter.

But, She made 21 sales last week, thats $42,000 in a week. She probably is making millions in courses.

Just get into an easy program at a big college and build fake aura around it. Of course your courses will have something useful because everyone can do that with AI today. Someone who doesn't know anything about AI or probably even software will keep buying them.

There are many people like this Akash being one of them.

A funny excerpt from one of her course description:

"💻🎁 One lucky winner from this cohort (AI for non coders) will receive a Dell Latitude 7650 Laptop worth ~2300$, and an autographed copy of Aishwarya Srinivasan's book - What's your worth? 📒"

haha. Anyway, wanted to share my research if others are buying into this to beware.

If i am totally wrong and she's a genius, please enlighten me and my coworker.

A lot of PM's trying to level up into AI. Just beware there are so many scammers that claim to agreegate the information from others better. Just follow the originals, not aggregators.

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