SPEC WRITINGTEMPLATE
Product Requirements Document
The one-page brief that tells you and your agent what you're building.
Copy →The tools finally caught up.
A free curriculum that takes you from idea to shipped software, no CS degree required. Internet Menace, again.
Use the following guides in order.
You don't have to read all of it. Read these five and you'll be functional by the weekend.
01
Start Here
The shortest possible explanation of what this curriculum is and why it might be for you.
~15 min read02Read This
The five things that have to be true for AI-assisted building to actually work.
~20 min read03Set Up Your Tools
The minimum software setup that gets you from zero to coding-with-an-agent.
~45 min, half coffee break04Write Your First Spec
A worked example: turn a vague idea into a buildable spec your agent can use.
~30 min write05Ship This Thing
Take the spec from step 04, hand it to the agent, push the result live.
~2 hrs buildWant this tailored to who you are? Choose your path.
We’ve re-sequenced the curriculum six different ways, depending on who you are and what you want to ship. Pick the one that sounds most like you.
Choose your path →Let me explore on my own.
Or skip the path altogether. The wiki, the templates, and the glossary are all open. Search anything; start anywhere.
Steal these.
Grab one of these, fill in your specifics, hand it to your agent.
SPEC WRITINGTEMPLATE
CLAUDE.md
The project-context file every coding-agent project needs on day one.
Copy →PROJECTTEMPLATE
Small Business Website
Five pages, a contact form, a domain. Live by Sunday.
Copy →AGENTTEMPLATE
Gmail + Calendar Agent
An agent that reads your inbox, drafts replies, and books meetings on your calendar.
Copy →AGENTTEMPLATE
Customer Scheduling Agent
Customers book themselves; the agent confirms, reschedules, and reminds.
Copy →What's new
Recent additions to the curriculum, the templates, and the glossary.
The template library grows to fifty
Nine templates became fifty: payments, auth, email, analytics, deploys, data pipelines, integrations, and a bench of new agents. Every one is a markdown file you copy, fill in, and hand to your agent. Section 9.2 still applies: write the fifty-first and send it back.
Internet Menace Foundations
The original 2024 curriculum is back, reorganized as sections 0.7 through 0.17. If you finished v1, it's a reunion; if you didn't, it's the 180-day foundation this whole site quietly assumes.
Stacks: eight opinionated ways to build
Eight opinionated stacks, from a weekend Vercel-and-Supabase startup to causal agent observability with PyRapide. Hand your agent a coherent set of tools instead of letting it improvise one.