Choose your path
Tell us who you are. We’ll tell you where to start.
Six paths through the same curriculum. They share the same content; what changes is the order, the framing, and where the worked examples come from. Pick the closest fit; if more than one fits, pick whichever sounds like more fun.
Students
You're in school, working through a degree or a credential, and you want to come out the other side with shippable skills, not just a transcript.
Functional in a school break, or a slow semester. Most of the work is in the first three sections; the last two are the project you'll spend your real time on.Choose this path →PathSmall Business Owners
You run the kind of business that makes payroll, dodges burnout, and could really use 10 hours of your week back.
Functional in two weekends. The first weekend is reading and setup. The second weekend is shipping the first agent.Choose this path →PathProfessionals
You have a job that pays you to think for a living, and you'd rather your tools kept up with what you can do.
Functional in three weeks of evenings, or one week of vacation if you'd rather get it done. The reading is bounded; the project at the end takes whatever time you give it.Choose this path →PathHobbyists
You build things on weekends because building things on weekends is what makes you happy. The skill ceiling just got a lot higher.
Functional in a few rainy weekends, give or take. The reading is bounded; the building takes whatever time you give it, and you'll probably enjoy giving it more.Choose this path →PathStay-at-Home Parents
You run a household, which means you do project management, logistics, scheduling, and triage all day, with no quarterly review.
Functional in two to four weeks of nap times and after-bedtime evenings, depending on which weeks the kids are sick. The path doesn't penalize you for taking longer.Choose this path →PathEnthusiasts
You read about this stuff for fun, you have opinions about benchmarks, and you've been waiting for a reason to actually build something with it.
Functional in two to three weeks if you redirect your AI-reading time toward AI-building time. The reading list will still be there when you finish.Choose this path →Also: built with students at SUNY
Graduate computer science and AI
A separate, self-paced track for graduate students with a year of free Google AI Pro access: nine units with learning outcomes, labs, and deliverables, cross-referenced into this curriculum. Not one of the six paths above. Its own wing.