Frontend Masters has spent years building a reputation as one of the best places on the internet to level up as a web developer, and the thing that has always set it apart is the calibre of its instructors, who tend to be genuine experts and active practitioners teaching in a live workshop format rather than faceless narrators reading a script. That reputation is well deserved, and the reason I am reviewing it on an AI course site is that the platform has quietly built out a small but genuinely good collection of machine learning and AI courses that inherit exactly the same teaching standard. These are not tacked on afterthoughts, they are practical, developer focused courses on things like using large language models, building AI powered features, and doing machine learning in JavaScript and Python, taught by people who actually build with these tools. If you are already comfortable as a developer and you want to add AI to what you can do, this applied, hands on framing is close to ideal, because it skips the long theoretical runway that a traditional machine learning course insists on and gets you building sooner, while still respecting your intelligence.
The honest limitations are mostly about scope and audience. The AI and machine learning catalogue, while high quality, is still modest in size next to a platform like DataCamp or Coursera that is wholly dedicated to data science, so you will not find the same exhaustive coverage or structured multi course specialisations. The courses also firmly assume you can already code, which means Frontend Masters is a poor choice for a complete beginner or a non technical person trying to break into AI, and its emphasis sits squarely on the applied engineering side rather than the mathematics, statistics, and theory that underpin machine learning, so a learner who wants to understand how the models work under the hood will need to look elsewhere. There is also the plain matter of value, since the subscription makes obvious sense if you will use the enormous web development library too, but looks expensive if you are only there for a handful of AI courses.
Weighing it up, I rate Frontend Masters highly for a clearly defined use case. For a working developer who wants to learn to build with AI in a practical, credible, waffle free way, taught by people who obviously know what they are doing, it is one of the better options available, and the fact that it comes bundled with one of the strongest web development catalogues anywhere is a real bonus. Just go in understanding that it is a developer's route into applied AI and not a from scratch grounding in machine learning theory.