Zero to hero
Learn what's actually going on in AI
Plain-language guides on the tools, the players, and the fundamentals. No hype, no jargon for jargon's sake. Pick a track and go from zero to shipping.
How Instagram outlier scores work: a dated, reproducible example
9 guides
Concepts & Fundamentals
The grounding everything builds on — LLMs, tokens, agents, RAG.
- What Is an LLM, Really?
- Tokens, Context Windows & Why They Matter
- Prompting That Actually Works
- What Is an Agent?
- Embeddings and Vectors Without the Math
8 guides
Core AI Dev Toolkit
Hands-on builder tooling — CLIs, MCPs, Skills, codecs.
- The CLI Is Back, But Weirder
- Your First Agentic CLI
- What Is MCP - and Why Everyone's Talking About It
- Connecting Your First MCP Server
- Skills: Teach Your Agent One Thing Well
6 guides
AI Landscape & Players
Who makes what, and how to choose — the labs and the field.
- The Map: Who Makes What (2026)
- OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Google: What Each Lab Is Actually Building
- Open-Weight Models: Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, and Qwen Explained
- Frontier vs Open: How to Choose a Model
- The Inference Layer: Groq, Together, Fireworks, and Cerebras
15 guides
Content Creation Tooling
Become a 1-person powerhouse — the modern AI creation stack.
- The 1-Person Creator Stack: Big Picture
- AI Image Gen: Midjourney, Flux & When to Use Each
- AI Video Gen: The 2026 Landscape
- Runway in Practice: Generating Real Clips with Gen-4 and Gen-4.5
- Higgsfield and Consistent Characters: How to Lock Identity Across AI Video Shots