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Glad you made it in. Before you go anywhere else, work through the steps below. They will get you set up and ready to start. ✅ Introduce yourself in the comments. Tell us what you do and why you are here. ✅ Watch the Getting Started overview 📚Navigating The Course - Getting Started · Clief Notes ✅ Start with the Foundation course 0.1: Where All Of This Leads - The Foundation · Clief Notes ✅ Fill out your profile so people know who you are ✅ Join the next competition ⭐ Competitions Mega Thread - Getting Started · Clief Notes ⭐ On Competitions (and why I love them) We host a competition every two weeks. These are some of the most powerful places to learn and build here. Also Cash prices (often over $200) for the winners. Learning how to do something is one part of it. The real learning starts when you put it to work. That is what the competitions and the build sessions are for. On top of this they act as a portfolio a place to not just show us but show others (clients, bosses, your best friend) what you have been building and that you really CAN build. In order to win a competition you must be a paying member (It takes me hours to review submissions sometimes days. But if you win ONCE you can pay for a whole year of membership so I think that's only fair!) Watch the videos, then go make something.
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This Saturday's Teas: Drop Your Questions
Afternoon Tea, 2:00pm EST, 30 minutes for premium members: https://forms.gle/KySPdt9Dz4iJP3kdA High Tea, 3:00pm EST, a full hour for VIP members: https://forms.gle/wAJHrCv7sJYXgono6 Bring real questions and we'll answer them live. Submit them so we hit the ground running!
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🏆 WEEKLY COMP #8: THE WILDCARD 🏆
🎟️ PRIZE: FREE SEAT IN THE LYCEUM 🎟️ Pick your cohort. Technical, Business, or Creator. Your call. ---- 📋 THE CHALLENGE You are the client this week. No fictional Marcus. No fictional Sarah. No fictional Devon. Pick a real problem in your own life or work. Build the folder-based specialist you wish you had. This is the capstone of Month 2. The challenge flips. Instead of building for someone else, you write your own brief and solve it for yourself. ---- 🎯 THE TWIST The hard part isn't building. The hard part is scoping. Picking the right problem is harder than solving the wrong one. Most people pick problems that are too small or too vague. The skill this week is treating yourself like a real client. Be specific about what's broken. Be specific about what you need. Don't pick "I want to be more productive." Pick "I waste two hours every Sunday night writing the same kind of LinkedIn carousel posts and I need a folder that handles 80% of the draft work so I can focus on the hook and the visuals." That's a real brief. Specific problem. Specific scope. Specific desired output. ---- 🗂️ TWO DELIVERABLES THIS WEEK This is the only week with two pieces: 1️⃣ Your own client brief. 250 words or less. Describe the problem you're solving for yourself. Treat yourself like a real client. What's broken? What have you already tried? What do you need? 2️⃣ The folder system that solves it. Same structure as every week: - 📄 identity.md - 📐 rules.md - 💬 examples.md - 📚 reference/ - 📖 README.md Your brief lives at the top of the repo as brief.md so judges can read it before they look at the folder. ---- 🔥 THE ANGLE THIS WEEK Anyone can follow a brief. Writing your own, then solving it, then shipping it as a usable folder is a portfolio piece that demonstrates judgment, not just execution. This is the skill that separates "AI hobbyist" from "AI builder." Anyone can prompt their way through a problem someone else handed them. Scoping a problem, designing the solution, and shipping it as a system is what real work looks like. 💪
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LEVEL 3 BABY!!!
Oh snap! I was not expecting this so soon after reaching level 2. A big thank you to everyone that helped me out with this!
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My AI has been hoarding my whole company in a folder I can't see. And it knows...
@Matthew Dave , told you I'd write a post about the thing to watch out for with Claude and going with GitHub. Grab a coffee, I'm gonna grab the Bourbon. This one's got a body count. First thing, so nobody gets the wrong idea. This is not a confession post. Not mine, anyway. The only one confessing here is Claude, and I'm just the guy holding the recorder (and the M16 pointed at my Claude install). This is a rage post. Unfortunately, I'm hot about it again, and by the end you'll know exactly why. Quick refresher. I run my whole company out of a folder system. Not one big repo, a whole pile of them, one per slice of the business, all syncing to the cloud so my team sees it, my machines pull it, and nothing important lives in one fragile spot. The agent that's never lost. You know the gospel, we preach it in here every day. Here's what has me seeing red. My agent has been stubbornly losing things for weeks. In the same spot. And I knew about it. It knew about it! Here's the bug, in plain words. Claude has a private home folder on whatever machine it's running on. That folder is NOT in my repo, or yours. It never syncs, my team never sees it, and if the machine dies it's gone. And the AI's lazy little instinct is to save its work THERE instead of in my actual folders. Every time it can get away with it. I did not just stumble onto this, been dealing with it for weeks. I HATE this bug. A couple weeks ago I blocked out a whole work session just to kill it. Wrote a standing rule into my workspace, added patches, watched it behave, closed the laptop thinking it was handled. It nodded along the whole time. It said sorry, took the blame, said it would never do it again. Said all the right things. Cool. You know what happened today? A contractor I'm working with tells me three of our automations are done. Sweet. I go to open them. They're not in the repo. They're sitting in the AI's private home folder on HIS laptop, invisible to me, running against HIS accounts instead of mine. The exact bug I "fixed" two weeks ago, back from the dead, wearing a new hat.
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