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• Write down what you're actually building open →

How AI coding actually works

• Watch a context window fill up open →
• Catch a confident invention open →
• Trigger and escape a doom loop open →

Claude Code vs Cursor

• Install one tool and make it introduce itself open →
• Use plan mode before it does anything open →
• Make it work the way you want open →

Working in the editor

• Find all five regions and resize them open →
• Read a diff before you accept it open →
• Reject something on purpose open →
• Navigate by what you can see open →

Terminal, files and folders

• Make a project folder without touching the mouse open →
• Dissect a real project open →
• Start it, break it, fix it open →

Git and GitHub from zero

• Audit every repo you own open →
• Prove your repo is actually private open →
• Make GitHub block a secret for you open →
• Put your first project on GitHub open →
• Break it and recover, deliberately open →
• Read a diff and judge it open →
• Ten commits in one evening open →

Your first build

• Build it, then rebuild it twice open →
• Fix five things with surgical precision open →
• Recreate something real open →

Prompting for software

• Same task, four prompt qualities open →
• Make it ask you questions open →
• Practise the bug report open →

Giving the AI a memory

• Write your CLAUDE.md today open →
• Test whether it's actually being followed open →
• Start a "bitten us before" log open →

Choosing a cheap stack

• Cost your own idea out open →
• Design your schema on paper open →
• Check RLS with your own eyes open →

Idea to MVP

• Slice your own product open →
• Build slice one, all the way open →
• Run the four states on one screen open →
• Try to break your own app for twenty minutes open →

When it breaks

• Build a debugging kit and use it open →
• Write a proper bug report open →
• Practise the revert-and-restart open →

Getting it online

• Deploy today, whatever state it's in open →
• Break production safely open →
• Connect a real domain open →
• Prove two users can't see each other open →

Security and spend

• Check your own repo for secrets open →
• Set every spending limit today open →
• Try to break into your own app open →
• Run the pre-launch audit for real open →

Your weekly rhythm

• Establish the end-of-session ritual open →
• Do a codebase health check open →
• Show it to five strangers open →
• Explain your app out loud open →

MVP thinking vs scale thinking

• Write down your five debts open →
• Break it with realistic data open →
• Measure your slowest page open →

Personal data, properly

• Map your data on one page open →
• Delete yourself, completely open →
• Check where everything lives open →
• Write the breach playbook open →

When to get tech advice

• Write your escalation plan now open →
• Assemble your context pack open →
• Book one hour, before you need it open →

Glossary

• Keep a running questions file open →