Your path, from your very first program to a finished product with real users. This season's map comes first: the weeks, lessons, labs and projects, and where you are. Below it, all 26 weeks.
Season 1 · Weeks 1–4 · Spark
This season's map. Build something every weekend.
Start from zero. Learn what a A list of exact steps a computer follows, one after another. is, how the internet talks and what is inside a An AI trained on huge amounts of text to predict what comes next., while you build your own assistant, FRIDAY: first a script that greets you, then a chat with a free model, then a home on A website that stores git repos online so others can see and use them. and a personality of its own.
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Labs passed0 of 19
Project steps0 of 8
Weekly streak How many weeks in a row you did some real work. Weekly, not daily.Starts this week
You can explain what a program is, how a computer runs it, break a problem into exact steps, and write small Python programs with variables, choices and loops.
Lessons0 of 130Labs0 of 139Still to learn100%
For fun, the same number the way AI training reports it: val_loss 10.83. In training it falls as a model learns; here it falls as you finish lessons and labs.
01 · The path
Gradient descent, on yourself.
Seven seasons of three or four weeks. Every weekend your assistant FRIDAY gains a new power, seven of those weekends are projects, and every season ends with a checkpoint test: a short test you take without notes or AI, to prove the skills stuck.
Start here
S1 Spark
S2 Face and hands
S3 Memory
S4 Will
S5 Shield
S6 Home
S7 Alive
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Spark. Weeks 1–4
Your assistant FRIDAY is born. Learn how computers, the internet and AI models actually work, starting from zero.
By handThink in steps, write your first Python, follow a request across the planet, then open a language model up and see how it thinks.
With AIFRIDAY: your own assistant in your terminal that keeps your to-dos, talks with a free AI model, and follows rules you wrote.
WeekendsA weekend build every week: think, draw, build, prove
Checkpoint test: Explain how a message reaches FRIDAY and back, from keyboard to model, in your own words
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Face and hands. Weeks 5–8
FRIDAY leaves the terminal: a face you can tap, a brain on a server, a memory, and hands that do real things.
By handRead and fix HTML, CSS and JavaScript, design an API, write SQL by hand, and code the tool loop yourself.
With AIFRIDAY online: a chat page, your own server and database, real tools and sign-in, reachable from your phone.
ProjectsProject 1: FRIDAY goes online
Checkpoint test: FRIDAY is online with sign-in, and remembers you after a restart
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Memory. Weeks 9–12
FRIDAY answers from your own notes. Learn how professionals measure "good", then build search that actually finds things.
By handRead failures by hand, work out judge rates and confidence, and write BM25 and recall@k in plain Python.
With AIAn eval report with a CI gate, then ask-my-notes: answers with citations that pass an eval.
ProjectsProject 2: An eval report and a CI gate · Project 3: Ask-my-notes
Checkpoint test: A measured gain, and answers you can trace to their source
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Will. Weeks 13–16
FRIDAY decides its next step by itself: planning your week, using many tools, working while you sleep. Power needs limits.
By handAn agent loop with a budget, memory that forgets, an MCP server and a job queue, written by hand.
With AIA week planner, long-term memory with approvals, your calendar and files over MCP, and a daily briefing.
ProjectsProject 4: The morning briefing
Checkpoint test: A morning briefing that runs by itself for a week
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Shield. Weeks 17–19
The villain arrives: a normal-looking email that gives FRIDAY orders. Learn how attacks work, lock FRIDAY in a box, ship to real people.
By handWrite the attacks yourself, then containers, a sandbox and a CI/CD pipeline you understand line by line.
With AIFRIDAY defended against a scripted attacker, running in containers, and used by five real friends.
ProjectsProject 5: Five real friends
Checkpoint test: Your attack tests block a known attack, and five people use FRIDAY
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Home. Weeks 20–23
FRIDAY moves into your laptop: a private model that runs with no internet, is fast, learns your habits and talks out loud.
By handFloats and quantization by hand, the price of a million tokens, a LoRA layer and a latency budget.
With AIPrivate mode, a router with fallbacks, a small model taught your format, and a voice you can interrupt.
ProjectsProject 6: Teach a small model
Checkpoint test: FRIDAY runs offline on your laptop and answers out loud
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Alive. Weeks 24–26
FRIDAY runs 24/7 for real people. Keep it alive at 2 a.m., peek at the research frontier, and put it all together.
By handAlert rules, a postmortem, a reward you can check and a whole-system design, all from memory.
With AIDashboards and alerts, an upstream pull request, and a public demo of FRIDAY you can defend.
ProjectsProject 7: The public demo
Checkpoint test: A stranger uses FRIDAY without your help, and you defend every box
02 · The plan
Twenty-six weeks, one at a time.
Open any week to see what you'll be able to do by Friday, what to build by hand and with AI, what to ship, and where to learn it. Every season is playable now. This is the one path open today; other paths are planned, with no dates yet.
Season 1 · Weeks 1–4
Spark. Your assistant FRIDAY is born. Learn how computers, the internet and AI models actually work, starting from zero.
Every weekend: a build for FRIDAY, planned on one page first.
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03 · What this path skips
Less of this, more of that.
Months of math before any codeMath just in time, attached to that week's build.
Frameworks before you know the webA page, a server and a database by hand first; then frameworks, once you know what they solve.
Collecting certificatesReceipts: shipped work someone else can check.
2023-era LangChain tutorialsWrite the agent loop yourself, then pick an SDK on purpose.
Prompt tricks and magic phrasesContext engineering and evals.
A naive RAG chatbot as your centrepieceAsk-my-notes with citations and an eval you can show.
Benchmark screenshots as proofYour own evals with confidence intervals.
Tutorial hellEvery weekend: think, draw, build, prove, on your own assistant.
GPUs before usersAPIs and small local models first.
32 skills · your periodic table
Every week lights up part of your table.
The periodic table shows the 22 things you'll be able to do on your own. Each one lights up as you finish the lessons that teach it.