Path
Professionals
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.
You're not new to this. You've watched colleagues claim AI made them ten times more productive, and you've watched the work product that came out of that. You don't want a transformation; you want the same hours of work to produce more.
This path is calibrated for someone applying skills they already have, not someone learning new ones from scratch. The exercises assume you can read a spec; what they teach is how to write one tight enough that an agent can build it.
Feature Specification
A spec for one feature, written tightly enough for an agent to build it.
Open template →What “shipped” looks like: An internal tool that saves your team eight hours a week, built in a weekend, that you can credibly claim in your next quarterly review.
Time to functional: 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.
Use these guides in this order, professionals.
The shortest path through. Read the five sections below across three weeks of evenings, ship the internal tool, decide if it's worth scaling further.
Start Here
The pitch in 800 words: AI is finally good enough that the work product holds up under review, and here's what's actually different now.
~15 min read02Read This
The five things that have to be true before AI saves time without producing work you'd be embarrassed to put your name on.
~25 min read03Set Up Your Tools
The minimum software setup. A laptop you already have, two account signups, one subscription that goes on the company card or your own.
~1 hr setup, evening04Write Your First Spec
The worked example: turn "I want a script that pulls our key metrics into one place" into a spec an agent can actually build from.
~45 min write, before standup05Ship This Thing
Hand the spec to the agent, watch it work, deploy the result where your team will actually use it. Document what you learned; you'll cite it later.
~3 hrs build, vacation Saturday