Learning paths

Routes from nothing to capable

Projects on their own are a menu. A path is a route: a small number of builds in a deliberate order, where each one teaches the thing the next one assumes. Pick the one that matches where you're going, and do them in order.

Beginner · About two weekends

Zero to your first working agent

Never built anything with AI before. Start here.

Who it's forYou can install things and follow instructions, but you've never wired a model into anything real.
You'll end up withThree working tools you actually use, and a clear mental model of how every agent works underneath.
  1. 1

    A spreadsheet column that thinks

    Start here — a model doing real work in a tool you already know, in under an hour.

    BeginnerAn hour·Free to build
  2. 2

    A bot that reads your inbox and texts you the important bits

    Now the full loop: fetch, judge, deliver. This is the shape of nearly every agent.

    BeginnerAn evening·Free to build
  3. 3

    An agent that watches your competitors while you sleep In progress

    Add memory and a schedule. This is where it stops being a script and starts being an agent.

    IntermediateAn evening·Free to build
Beginner → Intermediate · Three weekends

Make something physical

From never having touched a microcontroller to a working device.

Who it's forYou want a thing you can hold, and you're willing to buy $60 of parts to get there.
You'll end up withA device running in your home that senses something, decides something, and tells you about it.
  1. 1

    A plant that texts you when it's thirsty In progress

    Cheapest possible start: one sensor, one message. Learn to flash a board.

    BeginnerAn afternoon·$15–25 in parts
  2. 2

    A camera that texts you when a package arrives

    Add a camera and a vision model — judgment you could never hand-code.

    IntermediateA weekend·$45–70 in parts
  3. 3

    A voice assistant that does exactly one thing well In progress

    Add speech, and put it somewhere you'll use it daily.

    IntermediateA weekend·$60–90 in parts
Intermediate · Two to three weeks

Ship agents you can trust

For developers putting agents in front of other people.

Who it's forYou can already program. You need the patterns that keep an agent from embarrassing you in production.
You'll end up withAn agent with retrieval, real guardrails, controlled tool access and costs you can predict.
  1. 1

    A support bot that only answers from your own docs In progress

    Retrieval done properly, including the part where it admits it doesn't know.

    IntermediateA weekend·Free to build
  2. 2

    Safely giving an agent access to your calendar In progress

    Tool access with real limits — the difference between useful and dangerous.

    IntermediateAn evening·Free to build
  3. 3

    Getting AI to review your code and actually catch things

    Constrain the ask. The core skill behind every reliable agent you'll build.

    IntermediateTwo hours·Free to build

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