Path

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.

You already know how to do hard intellectual work; school proves it. What this curriculum adds is a different kind of payoff: you finish each section with something you built, and most of those somethings are things you can show somebody.

Why this path

If you finished Internet Menace v1, this path is the next step. If you didn't, this path is the new entry point. Either way, it's calibrated for someone learning, not someone catching up.

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CLAUDE.md

The project-context file every coding-agent project needs on day one.

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What “shipped” looks like: A working web app you built from a spec you wrote, deployed to a real URL, ready to send to anyone who asks what you've shipped lately.

Time to functional: 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.

Use these guides in this order, students.

The shortest path through. Read the five sections below in the gaps between coursework, ship a project you'd want to show somebody, decide if you want more.

01

Start Here

The pitch in 800 words: AI is finally good enough that you can ship real software while you're still in school, and here's what that requires of you.

~15 min read02

Read This

The five things that have to be true before AI helps you ship faster than your classmates writing code from scratch.

~25 min read03

Set Up Your Tools

The minimum software setup. A laptop you already have, two free signups, one $20 subscription if you can swing it, and you're working.

~1 hr setup, between classes04

Write Your First Spec

The worked example: turn "I want a web app that tracks my study sessions" into a spec an agent can actually build from.

~45 min write, library or coffee shop05

Ship This Thing

Hand the spec to the agent, watch it work, deploy the result to a real URL. Keep the link; you'll want it in your portfolio.

~3 hrs build, a free Saturday