Keep your job
in the AI era
Learn the 20% of AI skills that matter for 80% of dev work. Become the person who uses AI, not the one who gets replaced by it.
Proudly Ignored By Industry Titans
The AI Zealots Are
Insufferable
Every announcement triggers a swarm of "thought leaders" screaming that your career is over. Here's your field guide to the professional hype merchants making you feel inadequate.
The LinkedIn Trompet
Changed their title to "AI Visionary" last week. Posts daily about how they "built a $10M business in 3 hours with ChatGPT." The business? A Notion template. The $10M? Impressions.
The AI Startup Founder
Last month it was an "AI copilot for dentists." This month it's "AGI for pets." Next month they'll pivot to whatever Andreessen tweets about. Currently burning VC money at $50k/day on API calls.
The "Thought" Leader
Writes 47-tweet threads about "The Future of Coding" but hasn't shipped a feature since 2019. Their hot take: "Developers who don't use AI will be extinct." Their GitHub: 3 repos, all forks.
The "Prompt Bros"
Added "Senior Prompt Engineer" to their bio. Their job? Copy-pasting from Reddit and adding "think step by step." Salary expectations: $400k. Actual value added: changed the temperature from 0.7 to 0.8.
The "Billionaire Grifter"
Claims AGI is just around the corner. Every week they predict a new date for "the singularity." Meanwhile, their SOTA LLM is only known for putting people in bikinis.
The "Lunatic CEO"
Launched an "AI Initiative" with zero strategy to make investors happy. Forcing devs, QAs, PMs, even janitors to write code with AI tools. Bug count skyrockets 300x. Morale plummets. But hey, at least they "embraced innovation," right?
The Hype Cycle (Every 72 Hours)
Who is this actually for?
If you see yourself in one of these boxes, congratulations: you're our people.
The Bubble Survivor
The "Productivity" Victim
The Job Security Seeker
The Slop Detractor
The Paranoiac
The Zero-Shot Rizzler
What happens if you ignore this?
The Curriculum
From "What is AI?" to "How do I stop it from deleting the database?"
Part 1: Survival Skills (Don't Get Left Behind)
The minimum you need to know to keep your job and pass interviews
Welcome to Hell (Why You Can't Ignore This Anymore)
You think AI is hype. You might be right. But your manager doesn't think so. Learn what AI actually is (not magic), what it's genuinely useful for, and how to survive the FOMO.
The Bare Minimum You Need to Know About LLMs
They predict the next word. That's literally it. Learn about tokens, context windows, and parameters so you don't sound like an idiot in meetings.
Prompt Engineering (or: Talking to the Intern Who Knows Everything)
The AI is confident, articulate, and frequently wrong. Learn the techniques that actually work: chain of thought, few-shot examples, and when to just give up.
Memory and Context (Why It Forgets Everything)
LLMs have amnesia. Learn about context windows, why it can't remember your project structure, and how modern agentic AI can manage its own memory through files.
Part 2: Actually Using This Stuff (Practical Skills)
Code Generation Without Shooting Yourself in the Foot
You're using Copilot already. Let's make you good at it. Generating boilerplate without bugs, identifying deprecated suggestions, and avoiding dependency.
Debugging and Learning: Your New Stack Overflow
Paste the error, get an explanation. Ask about that legacy code nobody understands. AI is genuinely good at this.
Building Your First AI Feature (The Portfolio Project)
You need something real to show in interviews. 'I've played with ChatGPT' doesn't count. Build an actual AI-powered feature you can point to without lying.
Part 3: When You Actually Need This Stuff (Advanced Topics)
AI Agents: Tools, Loops and Bankruptcy
Agents use tools, make decisions, and cost more money. Learn what they are, how to build a simple one, and enough to lie about it on LinkedIn.
The Ralph Wiggum Technique (This is the Script!)
When AI agents get lobotomies between sessions and why that's actually a feature. The autonomous loop pattern for multi-session work.
Markdown Files: The New Programming Language
How .md files went from documentation nobody reads to the most important files in your codebase. AI agents care more about your README than your code.
Building Your Own Agent Harness
The infrastructure iceberg: code indexing, tool execution, session memory, and why 90% of the work isn't AI
Cost Control: Don't Blow Your Budget
How to use AI without explaining to Finance why your prototype cost $2,000
Agentic Workflows with PocketFlow
Build production-ready AI workflows with 100 lines of code instead of 10,000 lines of framework
Testing AI Systems: Without Losing Your Mind
How to build evals, measure AI quality, and prove to stakeholders that your system isn't just expensive autocomplete
Part 4: The Human Element (Surviving the Workplace)
Talking About AI in Interviews: Without Sounding Like an Idiot
How to answer AI questions without sounding like a fanboy, a hater, or someone who read a blog post yesterday
Managing AI Expectations: Dealing With Coworkers
How to survive managers who read articles, juniors who think they're 10x, and the general organizational chaos around AI
Exit Strategies: When AI Makes Things Worse
How to recognize failure, remove AI gracefully, and explain it to stakeholders
You Made It (Now Get Back to Work)
Congratulations. You now know enough about AI to be dangerous. Time to close this course and actually ship something.
Appendices
The Glossary of AI Nonsense
Terms you'll hear, what they actually mean, and which ones are bullshit
Prompt Templates That Actually Work
Copy-paste prompts for common scenarios. No shame in stealing.
Tool Recommendations (January 2026)
What's worth paying for, what's free and good enough, and what to avoid
Troubleshooting Common Problems
The AI is being stupid. Here's how to fix it.
Fun Projects to Try
Small, ridiculous projects that are actually great for learning
Building Your Own Agentic Coding Tool on Top of Pi
Pi's 'ask me to build it for you' philosophy. Minimal cores, maximum existential dread, and why giving developers primitives instead of features is either genius or sadism.
Works Cited (Yes, We Did Our Homework)
The papers, posts, and documentation we actually read so you don't have to. Plus some commentary on what's worth your time.
Where to Start?
Don't have time for everything? Pick your path. Or just go in order. We're not your manager.
Frontend Dev
UI meets AI
Backend Dev
Agents & infrastructure
Tech Lead / Manager
Strategy & politics
Just Curious
Start here
Pro tip: Going in order is fine. The modules build on each other.
Course Timeline
Total course time: ~12 hours (plus practice time, cursing, and existential void)
Interview in 2 weeks
~4.5 hours total
Chapters 01-04 (basics + prompting + context)
Chapter 07 (build the portfolio project)
Skim Chapter 15
1-2 months to spare
~12 hours total
Part 1: Survival Skills (Chapters 01-04)
Part 2: Practical Skills (Chapters 05-07)
Part 3: Advanced Stuff (Chapters 08-14)
Part 4: Human Stuff (Chapters 15-17) + Appendices
Just trying not to get fired
~2.5 hours + vibes
Read Chapters 01-04
Use AI tools daily for two weeks
Come back when something breaks
Human or Hallucination?
At the end of every module, we test your new abilities. For example:
Can you differentiate between sleep-deprived stupidity and artificial stupidity?
try {
processData(data);
} catch (e) {
// TODO: Fix this later
console.log("Error happened but we ignore it");
// window.location.reload(); // temporary fix
}Us vs The Scammers "Gurus"
You could spend $2,000 to learn how to center a div with AI, or you can spend a fraction of that to learn how to make the AI do your job while you nap.
Reviews from people
who are definitely not bots
Survived two rounds of layoffs. The 'AI-native' juniors got cut. I stayed because I actually know how to use these tools without burning $10k in API calls.
My manager was about to put me on a PIP for 'not adopting AI tools.' Finished this course over a weekend. Now I'm training the team.
Got a 40% raise by adding 'AI-assisted development' to my resume. I just use Copilot and know which buttons to press. That's literally it.
Was terrified of being replaced. Now I'm the one management asks about 'AI strategy.' I have no idea what I'm doing but neither does anyone else.
1 Star Reviews (We wear these as badges of honor)
"Too cynical. Programming is an art form, not a chore."
— 10x Ninja Rockstar
"This encourages laziness. Real developers compile Gentoo on weekends."
— Linux Purist
"Where is the section on ethics? AI safety is paramount."
— Fun at Parties
"My team lead caught me using this course. Now I'm the CTO. Help."
— Failing Upwards
"Not written in Rust? Unsafe. Unmoral. Unacceptable."
— Ferris The Crab
"I asked for a refund and the AI roasted my git commit history."
— Git Blame Victim
Cheaper than
Burnout Therapy
Expensable under "Professional Development" or "Mental Health", probably.
Do It Yourself
- Read 500 Medium articles
- Debug hallucinated code for weeks
- Get replaced by a script anyway
- Cry in the server room
- Explain to boss why you're slow
The "I'm Done" Bundle
- 100% Text (Read faster than 2x speed)
- 50+ Copy-Paste Prompts
- "Not a Robot" Certificate
- Lifetime access (until AGI kills us)
- Discord with no active mods
30-Day "Still Employed" Guarantee. Full refund if you don't feel more confident about your job security. No questions asked. Cheaper than a recruiter.
Enterprise
- We send you an Invoice PDF
- You get a "Digital Transformation" badge
- We don't actually talk to you
- Includes 1 hour of silence
Questions you might actually have
Will this teach me how to build my own LLM?
No. Why would you want to do that? Do you like burning money on GPUs? We teach you how to use the tools, not how to build the hammer.
Is this course updated for the latest model?
By the time you read this, a new model has probably released. The principles stay the same: Input lazy request -> Output code -> Profit.
Can I expense this?
We'll put 'Enterprise Productivity Efficiency Training' on the receipt. Your manager will love it because it sounds like you're working harder.
What if AI takes my job anyway?
Then you'll have more time to watch the world burn. But at least you didn't spend your last days debugging CSS centring issues.
What I don't have a dev job. Is this still for me?
No. This course is specifically designed for developers. If you want to learn AI as a marketer, google 'AI for Overworked Marketers Who Hate Their Lives'.
Do I need to know Python?
Does anyone really 'know' Python? Or do we all just google syntax? If you can type, you're overqualified.
Is there a community?
Yes, but we encourage you not to talk to each other. Networking is exhausting.
Why is the theme so dark?
To match your soul after your 5th Zoom meeting of the day.
Can I run this on my local machine?
Sure, if you want your laptop to sound like a jet engine and generate one word per minute. We have a module for hoarding models you'll never use.
Why is it so expensive?
It's not expensive. You are just underpaid because you haven't mastered the art of looking busy yet. Buy the course.
Will I get a certificate?
Yes, a PDF you can print out and put on your fridge. Your mom will be so proud.
Why is this website built in React?
Because downloading 2MB of JavaScript to render static text is the industry standard. We are part of the problem.
Did you use AI to write this?
Of course. We outsourced our sense of humor to the nearest chatbot. Wanna know which one? I won't tell you.
Meeting Bingo
Play this during your next "AI Transformation" All Hands to prevent falling into a coma.