Course 1 · Build With AI

Learn AI by building it.

Hey there. No slideshows. You build twelve real tools on your own work, break them on purpose, and learn what's going on underneath while you fix them. By the end you'll have your own AI system and know how every piece of it works.

How this works

Every build is real and personal. You build it on your own job and life, not a toy example.
Every build breaks once on purpose. You'll catch the AI making a mistake that cost Kyle weeks to figure out, and learn why it happens.
Each step gets signed off, like an operation on a shop traveler. Your progress saves as you go.
Stuck? Every page has an "Ask Kyle" box at the bottom.

Time: about 60 hours. Most builds take 4–6 hours, a few closer to 10. Plan on a month or more.

You'll need: a Mac or Windows computer, a paid Claude (Pro) or ChatGPT (Plus) plan, and about $5 of API credit to start.

→ Start Here: About You
15 minutes of questions so every build is tailored to your work and life. Start here 0 Setup, First Call, Memory Bank
Terminal, a coding agent, an API key kept safe, your first program that talks to an AI, and the start of your own AI memory. 4 hrs Open

1 Prompt Like You Mean It
Write prompts that get it right, then run them through an audit loop until two AIs agree. 4–5 hrs Locked

2 Connect Your Stuff
Hook your AI to your email and calendar, and have it draft replies in your own voice. 5 hrs Locked

3 Python + Your First Scraper
Have an AI coder build a program that watches a website for you, and learn what every line does. 5 hrs Locked

4 Run It 24/7
Put your program on GitHub and Railway so it runs while your computer sleeps. 4 hrs Locked

5 Skills and Tools
Build a custom skill, a tool and an MCP server that keep your AI memory organized. 5 hrs Locked

6 Make Media
Images and video with real prompting, plus a folder watcher: drop a photo, get it edited and captioned. 5–6 hrs Locked

7 Build a Website
A multi-page site with an animated background that updates itself. 5 hrs Locked

8 Life Library
Search your own documents by meaning, with sources. 6 hrs Locked

9 Agent With Hands
An agent that decides, acts and waits for your OK, then rebuilt in LangGraph. 6–8 hrs Locked

10 Build Your Own Coder
Automate Kyle's build workflow: research, scope, audit loop, plan, build, review. 8–10 hrs Locked

11 Jarvis v0
Wire your builds into one assistant. 6–8 hrs Locked

Aa AI Words
LLM, RAG, MCP, agent, orchestrator, harness, guardrails, AGI, ASI. What they actually mean, tied to what you built. Anytime

∞ The AI Story
How we got here, who's building it, the race to superintelligence, AI 2027, and why people inside the labs are worried. Anytime