Made with ❤️ by Pranav Menon

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This guide teaches you how to build real software projects using AI, even if you’re new to coding environments.

You are not expected to understand everything upfront. But you are expected to follow a repeatable process.

By the end of this guide, you’ll know how to:

We’ll use a journaling app as our running example. The actual app matters less, the building principles and the process matters most.

This guide will have a fundamentals section (101) then an advanced section (102) for those that are looking to take their AI agent skills to another level

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Don’t just read the guide. Actually implement the guide step by step. Reading along will not help you learn. Put 1 hour on the clock, and finish this end to end. Read every line intentionally.

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Phase 1: Get really good at providing instructions (Prompt Engineering)

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What we’re building: A basic journalling app that connects to GPT and offers the user insights plus prompting questions to deepen the reflection practice.

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