AI FOR DEVS WHO
HATE THE HYPE
Learn how to use AI to automate the boring 80% of your job so you can focus on the 20% you actually like (or just play video games, we don't judge).
Proudly Ignored By Industry Titans
The Industry is
Lying to you
Exhausting.
Every day a new "Paradigm Shift" drops. Every day you're told your stack is obsolete. Here is the actual state of the "Revolution" they are trying to sell you.
Autonomous Agents
Bots talking to bots. They promise to 'build the whole app' for you, but mostly they just burn through your API credit limit arguing with each other about package dependencies.
The RAG Pipeline
Spinning up a vector database, an embedding model, and a reranker just to search a PDF. You call it 'Semantic Retrieval', we call it over-engineering a keyword search.
Reasoning Models (o1/R1)
Models that take 60 seconds to answer '2+2'. They show you their 'thought process', which is really just the model hallucinating with confidence in slow motion.
1 Million Token Context
Sure, you can paste the entire codebase into the prompt. No, it won't remember where you defined that variable in line 400. It's called the 'Lost in the Middle' phenomenon.
The 'AI Software Engineer'
Tools like 'Devin' that look amazing in 30-second Twitter clips. In reality, they get stuck on a CORS error for 4 hours, delete your .env file, and then ask for a raise.
Local LLMs
Downloading 500GB of weights to run a quantized model that performs worse than GPT-3.5. You tell yourself it's for 'Privacy', but really you just like buying expensive GPUs.
The Cycle of AI Misery
Who is this actually for?
If you see yourself in one of these boxes, congratulations: you're our people.
The Slop Detractor
The Paranoiac
The "Productivity" Victim
The Bubble Survivor
The FOMO Victim
The Zero-Shot Rizzler
The Cloud Sponsor
The Rage Quitter
The Existentialist
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 without drinking the Kool-Aid.
Syllabus Highlights:
- › You Don't Want to Be Here
- › What This Course Actually Is
- › Why You Actually Can't Ignore This
- › What AI Actually Is (spoiler: regex on solar system scale)
- › What AI Is Actually Good For
- › The Three Goals of This Course
- › What Happens Next
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 when your manager starts throwing around buzzwords.
Syllabus Highlights:
- › It's Just Autocomplete (But Really Good)
- › Tokens: The Weird Unit That Will Haunt Your Dreams
- › What is a token?
- › The 'egg' problem
- › Why this is annoying
- › Vocabulary Size: The Model's Word List
- › Input Tokens vs Output Tokens: The Billing Nightmare
- › Context Window: The Model's Goldfish Memory
- › Parameters: The 'Size' of the Model
- › Proprietary vs Open Source (Open Weights)
- › Cloud vs Local: The Ultimate Trade-off
- › Model Sizes and Memory
- › Dense vs Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)
- › Quantization: Making Big Models Fit
- › What You Actually Need to Remember
- › Why This Matters for Your Actual Work
Prompt Engineering (or: Talking to the Intern Who Knows Everything)
The AI is confident, articulate, and frequently wrong. Learn the techniques that actually work instead of the bullshit people post on Twitter.
Syllabus Highlights:
- › Your First Prompt Will Be Wrong (Accept This Now)
- › The Golden Rule: Be Absurdly Specific
- › Few-Shot Prompting: Show, Don't Tell (The AI Is Stupid)
- › Chain of Thought: Make It Show Its Work
- › The Planning Stage: Stop It Before It Wastes Your Time
- › The 'Are You Sure?' Trick (This Is Embarrassing But True)
- › Temperature: The Creativity Slider (or the Chaos Knob)
- › System Messages: The Personality Dial
- › The Iterative Refinement Loop (Don't Start Over, For the Love of God)
- › Common Prompting Mistakes (That Will Ruin Your Day)
- › Advanced Technique: Role Playing
- › The Ugly Truth About Context Windows
- › Stealing Prompts That Work (This Is Encouraged)
- › What You Should Actually Practice
- › The Part Where I'm Honest With You
Memory and Context (Why It Forgets Everything)
You spent 45 minutes explaining your architecture. Twenty minutes later, it suggests MongoDB. You use PostgreSQL. You told it that. It forgot. Welcome to context windows.
Syllabus Highlights:
- › The Goldfish Problem
- › Why Context Windows Are a Lie
- › The Conversation That Ate Itself
- › What the AI Actually Remembers
- › The Agentic Breakthrough
- › Teaching the AI to Keep a Diary
- › The Task List Pattern
- › Building Your Project Memory
- › When to Start Over (And How to Not Lose Everything)
- › The Future That Actually Arrived
Part 2: Actually Using This Stuff (Practical Skills)
Stop reading about AI and start using it without wanting to throw your laptop
Code Generation Without Shooting Yourself in the Foot
You're using Copilot already. Everyone is. They're just not admitting it. Learn to generate boilerplate without bugs, spot deprecated suggestions, and avoid the dependency that makes you dumber.
Syllabus Highlights:
- › The Lie We All Tell
- › What's Actually Happening When Code Appears
- › The Three Stages of AI-Assisted Coding
- › The Password Reset Incident
- › Why the AI Keeps Suggesting Deprecated Shit
- › The Problem with Looking Right
- › Learning to Spot the Lies
- › The New Skill: Speed Reading Code You Didn't Write
- › Your Actual Workflow Now
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 — it's seen every error message ever written.
Syllabus Highlights:
- › The Old Way vs The New Way
- › Why AI is Surprisingly Good at This
- › The Error Message Translator
- › The Legacy Code Archaeologist
- › When the AI Becomes a Rubber Duck
- › The 'What the Fuck is This?' Workflow
- › Learning New Frameworks Without Reading Docs
- › The Limits of AI Debugging
- › Your New Debugging Loop
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.
Syllabus Highlights:
- › Why You Need This (The Interview Question)
- › What NOT to Build (The Graveyard of Portfolio Projects)
- › What Actually Impresses Interviewers
- › The Project: Documentation Search (That Doesn't Suck)
- › RAG Explained Like You're Not a PhD
- › Setting Up the Foundation
- › Step 1: Chunking Your Documents
- › Step 2: Creating Embeddings
- › Step 3: Vector Storage
- › Step 4: The Search Function
- › Step 5: The AI Response
- › Step 6: The API Endpoint
- › Deployment Without Bankruptcy
- › How to Talk About This in Interviews
- › The Honest Limitations
Part 3: When You Actually Need This Stuff (Advanced Topics)
For when the basics aren't enough and you need to build real systems
AI Agents: Tools, Loops, and Bankruptcy
Everyone's building "agents" now. Most of them are while loops with API calls. Learn what agents actually are, how to build simple ones, and how to avoid spending your entire AWS budget in one afternoon.
Syllabus Highlights:
- › The Moment It Clicked
- › What Tools Actually Are
- › From Chatbot to Agent
- › Building Your First Agent (No Libraries, Just Pain)
- › The Agent Loop (Where Things Get Weird)
- › When Agents Go Wrong
- › MCP: The Protocol That Might Matter
- › The Uncomfortable Questions
The Ralph Wiggum Technique
After 3 hours, your AI assistant starts confidently making the same mistake it made in hour one. Every session, it discovers your codebase for the first time. This is a feature, not a bug—if you know how to use it.
Syllabus Highlights:
- › The Problem Ralph Solves
- › Why This Works (Against All Logic)
- › The Core Idea: Amnesia as a Feature
- › How Ralph Actually Works
- › The Three Critical Files
- › Building Your Own Ralph
- › The Brutal Discipline Required
- › When Ralph Fails Spectacularly
- › Why This Is Better Than You Think
Building Your Own Agentic Coding Tool
You've used Copilot and Cursor. Now understand how they actually work. Build a simple version yourself, so you know when these tools are helping and when they're confidently destroying your codebase.
Syllabus Highlights:
- › What You're Actually Building
- › The Architecture Nobody Tells You About
- › Code Indexing (Or: How It Knows Your Codebase)
- › The System Prompt That Makes It Work
- › The Harness (The Part That Actually Matters)
- › The Two-Agent Pattern
- › How Multi-Context Window Work Actually Happens
- › Building It: The Pseudo-Code Version
- › The Problems You'll Hit
- › What Makes This Hard
Cost Control (Don't Blow Your Budget)
API calls cost money. Cloud services cost money. That "unlimited" AI subscription has limits. Learn how to use AI without explaining to Finance why your prototype cost $2,000.
Syllabus Highlights:
- › The Actual Cost Breakdown
- › The Real Cost Killers
- › Caching: Your Best Friend
- › Rate Limits: The Invisible Walls
- › Local Models: The Alternative
- › Building Cost-Conscious Architecture
- › The Awkward Conversation with Your Manager
- › The Cost Control Checklist
- › The Uncomfortable Truth
- › What You've Learned
Exit Strategies (When AI Makes Things Worse)
Sometimes the AI suggestion is actively harmful. Sometimes the whole feature was a bad idea. Learn when to say "no" and how to gracefully remove AI from a system that's become dependent on it.
Syllabus Highlights:
- › The Sunk Cost Fallacy (But With API Calls)
- › Signs Your AI Feature Is Making Things Worse
- › Graceful Degradation: When the API Goes Down
- › The Kill Switch: Turning It Off Without Breaking Everything
- › When NOT to Use AI (The Uncomfortable List)
- › Building Systems That Survive AI Failure
- › Explaining the Removal to Stakeholders
- › The Exit Strategy Checklist
- › The Hardest Lesson
- › What You've Learned
Agentic Workflows with PocketFlow
LangChain has 50,000 lines of code. LlamaIndex isn't much better. n8n is visual but rigid. Learn how to build production-ready AI workflows with ~100 lines of framework instead of 10,000.
Syllabus Highlights:
- › The Framework Problem
- › What PocketFlow Actually Is
- › The Core Abstraction: Nodes
- › Connecting Nodes: Flows
- › Building an Agent: The Loop Pattern
- › Batch Processing: When You Have Many Items
- › RAG with PocketFlow
- › When to Use What
- › The Migration Path
- › What You've Learned
Testing AI Systems (Without Losing Your Mind)
"How do you know it works?" "I tried it a few times and it seemed fine." That's vibes-based testing, and it will destroy you in production. Learn how to build evals, measure AI quality, and prove to skeptical stakeholders that your system isn't just expensive autocomplete.
Syllabus Highlights:
- › Why Testing AI Is Different (And Worse)
- › The Eval Mindset
- › Types of Evals You Actually Need
- › Building Your First Eval Suite
- › Measuring What Matters
- › Automated Evals vs Human Review
- › Regression Testing for AI
- › The Vibes-Based Testing Problem
- › A/B Testing AI Features
- › When Evals Lie to You
- › Continuous Evaluation in Production
- › Making Evals Actually Useful
Part 4: The Human Element (Surviving the Workplace)
Because the hardest part isn't the technology — it's other people
Talking About AI in Interviews (Without Sounding Like an Idiot)
"Tell me about your experience with AI." This question is coming. You need an answer that doesn't sound like you read a blog post yesterday. Learn what to say, what not to say, and how to actually demonstrate competence.
Syllabus Highlights:
- › What Interviewers Are Actually Asking
- › The Questions You'll Get (And How to Answer Them)
- › The Ethical Questions
- › Red Flags That Kill Your Credibility
- › Questions to Ask Them
- › When to Admit You Don't Know
- › The Interview Prep Checklist
- › The 30-Second Pitch
- › What You've Learned
Managing AI Expectations (Dealing With Coworkers)
Your manager read an article and now wants "AI everything." Your junior dev thinks they're 10x because of Copilot. Your designer wants to "leverage generative AI." Learn how to set realistic expectations without crushing dreams or getting fired.
Syllabus Highlights:
- › The AI Believer Spectrum
- › Setting Expectations Without Crushing Dreams
- › The 'Quick AI Prototype' Trap
- › When Your Junior Dev Becomes 'An AI Expert'
- › Protecting Your Codebase
- › The Uncomfortable Conversation About Code Review
- › Building AI Literacy (Without Being Preachy)
- › Organizational AI Maturity
- › The Politics of AI Projects
- › The Long Game
- › What You've Learned
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 15-16) + 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
}The Coping Mechanism
Enter your trauma. The AI selects a template and generates a meme to validate your pain.
The Stack of Regret
We chose these tools not because they are good, but because they look impressive on a resume and confuse management.
React (useEffect hell)
Why write HTML when you can debug infinite re-renders? We download 2MB of JS just to display a static 'About Us' page. Just like Cloudflare
Serverless (Cost: Infinite)
Cold starts give you time to contemplate your life choices. Billed per millisecond of regret.
JSON file in Git
ACID compliance is for people who don't trust their git merge strategy. 'Eventual Consistency' means 'maybe'.
Qwen-2.5-Coder (The free one)
It hallucinates 40% of the time, which matches the accuracy of your average Senior PM.
Docker inside Docker
Abstraction layers so deep even the kernel doesn't know what's running. Debugging is impossible.
Vim (Stuck inside)
You didn't choose to use Vim. You just opened it once in 2014 and haven't figured out how to exit. Using VSCode in the meantime
Zsh with 40 Plugins
Your terminal takes 8 seconds to load because you need a rainbow powerline prompt to feel productive.
FTP to Production
CI/CD pipelines are for cowards. Real developers drag-and-drop 'index.php' and overwrite live data.
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
I haven't written actual code in three months. I just review what the AI generates and nod sagely in meetings. Promoted twice.
Finally, a course that admits we're all just gluing APIs together. The module on automating standups saved my marriage.
My boss thinks I'm working 12 hour days. I'm actually playing Baldur's Gate 3. Best investment ever.
I used the resume padder module and now I'm the Head of AI at a Series B startup. I have no idea what I'm doing.
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 money-back guarantee if you actually enjoy the course.
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.
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.
Meeting Bingo
Play this during your next "AI Transformation" All Hands to prevent falling into a coma.
Resume Inflator 3000
Turn "I changed a button color" into "Architected a high-impact UI paradigm shift." Lying on your resume isn't a crime, it's Personal Branding.
Ready to exaggerate
Enter a task on the left to generate corporate nonsense.