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AI Coding Roadmap

Become 3x more effective with AI in your daily coding loop. Aimed at working engineers.

Intermediate4–6 weeks5 stages

Outcome

You're proficient with at least one agent (Cursor or Claude Code), you've shipped real code with AI help, and you know where AI helps vs. hurts.

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Key takeaways

  • 1Solid working knowledge of one stack — pick the one you ship with daily
  • 2Comfort with command line and git
  • 3Willingness to abandon old habits if AI replaces them

Recommended tools

Projects you'll build

The roadmap

  1. 01

    1. Pick your editor

    Week 1

    Spend a week with each. Commit to one.

  2. 02

    2. Get the autocomplete loop right

    Week 2

    Most engineers leave 50% of AI's value on the table by not learning the basics of tab autocomplete and context.

  3. 03

    3. Agent loops

    Week 3

    Move from typing-with-help to delegating-and-reviewing. This is where the 3x is.

  4. 04

    4. Pick the right model per task

    Week 4

    Don't pay Opus to lint. Don't ask Haiku to design a system.

  5. 05

    5. Ship something real

    Week 5–6

    Use AI to take a real project from 0 to deployed. Then write up what worked and what didn't.

Frequently asked questions

Pick one to learn deeply. Most engineers settle on Cursor for editor-time work and Claude Code for background/long-running tasks. Both is fine; one well is better than two poorly.

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