Academy
A plain-spoken course on building with AI coding agents. Learn the ideas that hold across every tool, then the specifics for Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini. Read the lessons, then take the test to check what stuck. Everything links out to free, first-party sources.
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Foundations
GeneralThe core ideas behind agentic coding that apply no matter which tool you use.
Anthropic / Claude Code
AnthropicThe Claude Code workflow, project memory, subagents, and prompting techniques.
OpenAI / Codex
OpenAIRunning the Codex CLI agent, AGENTS.md instructions, and prompting for agentic coding.
Google / Gemini
GooglePrompt design for Gemini, building agents, and using long context well.
Working by Task Type
GeneralPlaybooks for planning, testing, refactoring, security, and documentation.
AI for YouTube Creators
GeneralUse AI across the YouTube pipeline: ideas, scripts, thumbnails, editing, Shorts, and a weekly workflow.
Finding Video Ideas and Validating Them with AI
Writing Retention-First Scripts and Hooks
Designing Click-Worthy Thumbnails and Titles with AI
AI Editing: Captions, B-Roll, and Pacing Cleanup
Repurposing Long Videos into Shorts Automatically
Building a Repeatable Weekly AI Production Workflow
AI for Instagram & TikTok
GeneralMake scroll-stopping short-form video with AI: hooks, scripts, voiceover, platform formats, and iteration.
AI for Bloggers & SEO
GeneralPair AI drafting with search intent, on-page SEO, human editing, and optimizing for AI search surfaces.
Keyword Research and Search Intent Basics
Prompting AI for Outlines and First Drafts
Editing AI Drafts for Accuracy, Voice, and E-E-A-T
On-Page SEO: Titles, Headings, and Internal Links
Optimizing for AI Search Engines and Featured Answers
AI Image Generation
GeneralGenerate images with Midjourney and Flux: how diffusion works, prompting, parameters, and a consistent style.
How Diffusion Image Models Work (Plain English)
Writing Your First Prompts: Subject, Style, Detail
Parameters, Aspect Ratios, and Variations
Choosing Midjourney vs Free Flux for the Job
Iterating, Upscaling, and Building a Consistent Style
AI Video Generation
GeneralDirect AI video with Runway and Kling: the landscape, prompting for camera and consistency, and editing.
AI Music & Audio
GeneralMake music and voice with Suno and ElevenLabs: song generation, lyrics, refining, TTS, and voice cloning.
AI 3D & Game Assets
GeneralGenerate 3D models and sprites: text/image to mesh, PBR textures, rigging, engines, and optimization.
AI Chatbots & Automation
GeneralDesign conversation flows and build bots with ManyChat, Make.com, and an LLM for smart, grounded replies.
AI coding books
A short shelf worth your time. The ideas in these hold up whether you write the code or an agent does.
AI Engineering
The practical guide to building real applications on top of foundation models, end to end.
Find it on AmazonDesigning Machine Learning Systems
How to take ML from a notebook to something that runs in production and stays reliable.
Find it on AmazonPrompt Engineering for LLMs
Gets specific about coaxing good output from models, which is half the job of an agent build.
Find it on AmazonThe Pragmatic Programmer
The habits that make a good engineer. Just as true when an AI writes the first draft of your code.
Find it on AmazonBuild a Large Language Model From Scratch
Build a small model by hand to understand what the big ones are actually doing under the hood.
Find it on AmazonDesigning Data-Intensive Applications
The systems thinking behind anything that stores and serves data at scale, AI apps included.
Find it on Amazon