The course

Four weeks. Live. Online.
You leave with four shipped projects.

The course is structured around what you make, not what you read. Each week ends in something that exists on the internet, with your name on it.

01

The four weeks

Each week builds on the last. By the end of week four, you’ve made four things and learned a method you keep forever.

Week one

Direct the work.

Set up your environment, learn the prompting patterns that move work, and ship a real landing page.

  • ·How AI tools actually fit together
  • ·Setting up Cursor, your repos, and your deploys
  • ·Prompt patterns that work, prompt patterns that don't
  • ·Ship a landing page in week one
  • ·Version control, the parts you actually need
  • ·Putting things on the internet

By Friday

A live landing page on a custom domain.

Week two

Make it interactive.

Forms, data, real users. Build something a real person could open and use.

  • ·State, components, and the difference between them
  • ·Forms that don't lose data
  • ·Talking to APIs
  • ·A database, the small honest version
  • ·Letting people sign in
  • ·What 'good enough' error handling looks like

By Friday

An interactive web app, used end-to-end by a real person.

Week three

Bring AI into the product.

AI as a feature, not just the builder. Wire OpenAI/Claude/etc. into what you've made.

  • ·AI APIs: what they are, what they cost, how to call them
  • ·Building chat into a product, properly
  • ·Generation features that don't fall over
  • ·Image and media
  • ·Smart inputs (forms that understand)
  • ·Performance, cost, and how to think about both

By Friday

An AI-powered version of last week's app.

Week four

Ship the demo.

A focused build sprint. You leave with a portfolio piece you'd be proud to send anywhere.

  • ·Choosing the right thing to build
  • ·Rapid prototyping with AI
  • ·Sprint to a working demo
  • ·Build your portfolio site
  • ·Demo day rehearsal
  • ·Showing up well: how to talk about what you built

By Friday

A demo project, public portfolio, and demo day presentation.

02

Tools you’ll use

A small kit, chosen carefully. Same tools real engineers ship with.

Cursor

Editor with AI built in

Claude / ChatGPT

Pair programmer, writer, reviewer

Vercel

Where the work goes live

Supabase

Database and auth, without the infrastructure

OpenAI / Anthropic APIs

AI as a feature inside what you build

Tailwind

How you make things look intentional

03

How it runs

Live sessions

Two live sessions per week, recorded if you can’t make them.

Office hours

Weekly group office hours where you bring whatever’s stuck.

Slack

A small cohort Slack with peers and Mark, not a sprawling forum.

Time

Plan ten to fifteen hours a week. Built for people with day jobs.

Group size

Capped intentionally. Big enough for energy, small enough for Mark to know your name.

Demo day

The cohort ends with a public demo. Optional, encouraged, surprisingly fun.

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