Learn AI Curriculum Cookbook

A hands-on tour of AI assistants

Drive imitations of every kind of modern AI tool — chat, coding CLI, cloud agent, UI generator, self-hosted agent. End with a tool you built.

Chat
ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini
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Coding CLI
Cursor · Claude Code · Codex
Cloud agents
Devin · Cowork · OpenHands
Visual UI
v0 · Lovable · Bolt
Self-hosted
Hermes · OpenClaw · aider
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Start Here

What modern AI assistants are, and what you can build with them.
3 min ✓

What AI assistants are, in 3 minutes

The shortest possible intro. No jargon.
4 min ✓

What can you actually build?

A capability map — from a doc to a deployed app.

Foundations

CLI, git, MCP — the three things every AI tutorial assumes you know.
5 min ✓

Writing prompts that work

The shape of a good prompt. Iterate; don't restart. The one skill that compounds.
4 min ✓

The CLI / terminal

A text window where you tell your computer what to do. Where most AI tools live.
4 min ✓

Git — your AI safety net

Version control as 'undo for your whole project'. Essential when AI edits files.
4 min ✓

MCP — how AI plugs into your tools

The standard that lets agents talk to your filesystem, Slack, GitHub, Postgres, etc.
5 min ✓

Hallucinations, leaks, and what AI can't do

The five failure modes every AI user should know — and how to defend against them.
5 min ✓

Tokens, models, and what it actually costs

How AI is priced, where your money goes, and how to cap your spend before it surprises you.

Chat assistants

ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Gemini, Perplexity, Mistral Le Chat.
3 min ✓

Drive a chat assistant

ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Gemini all share this shape. Try the imitation.
3 min ✓

Projects, GPTs, Gems — custom assistants

Drop in files + instructions to make a focused helper for one job.
3 min ✓

Artifacts and canvases

When the assistant produces a thing it pops into a side panel.

Coding assistants

Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot.
4 min ✓

What coding assistants do

An AI pair programmer that reads, edits, and runs your code.
4 min ✓

Install and first run

Most CLIs follow the same install pattern.
4 min ✓

Slash commands, agents, skills

Drive a pretend coding-CLI session.

Cloud agents (parallel)

Devin, Claude Cowork, Copilot Workspace, Codex Cloud.
3 min ✓

Why run things in parallel?

Hand off small, well-scoped jobs to cloud agents.
4 min ✓

Sending a task, reviewing the diff

From prompt to pull request without a terminal.

Visual UI generators

v0.dev, Lovable, Bolt, Claude Design, Galileo.
3 min ✓

Sentence in, screen out

Describe a UI in plain English, see it rendered.
3 min ✓

Iterating: variants and refinement

Swap styles, ask for a tweak, copy the code.

Open-source autonomous agents

Hermes, OpenClaw, aider, OpenHands — agents you self-host.
4 min ✓

The open-source agent ecosystem

Hermes, OpenClaw, aider, OpenHands, Goose, Continue, Cline.
4 min ✓

LLM APIs in 4 minutes

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google — same shape, three vendors.
6 min ✓

Set up an autonomous agent (worked example)

Hermes Agent install — pattern transfers to most others.

Ship Something

Pick one. Build it. Keep it.
2 min ✓

Pick what to build

Three guided paths. Pick one and follow it end-to-end in the real tool.
10 min ✓

Build · A writing assistant

A saved Project / GPT / Gem you'll use forever. ~10 min, no install.
15 min ✓

Build · A live webpage

A working one-page site you can share. ~15 min, no install.
20 min ✓

Build · A personal script

A Python tool on your machine via a coding CLI. ~20 min.