The journey

Six parts. One arc.

Read the 46 chapters in any order. They each stand alone. But there's a shape underneath, and once you see it, the chapters click into place — what you'd ask first vs what you'd ask at hour 200.

Reframe → Memory → Workshop → Discipline → Building → Frontier. Each part has 3-10 chapters. Each part answers a different question. Read straight if you're new; jump if you know what you're after.

I
3 chapters

The Reframe

Stop using AI like a chatbot. Start using it like an OS.

Three chapters that change the question. The tabs die. The temp agency replaces the genius. The tool count drops from fifty to five. Read these in order; everything after assumes you've crossed this line in your head.

  1. 01 AI as an Operating System

    The Day I Killed My Tabs
  2. 02 The Five-Tool Stack

    Five Tools, Not Fifty
  3. 03 Why Claude Forgets You

    AI Is a Temp Agency, Not a Genius
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III
8 chapters

The Workshop

Three doors, one swarm, the modes that own you.

Where the work actually happens. Pick the right surface (Chat / Cowork / Code), pick the right mode (Interactive / Plan / Auto), spawn a swarm when one thread isn't enough. This is the chapter range you'll re-read at hour 200.

  1. 08 Chat, Cowork, or Claude Code?

    Three Doors to Claude
  2. 13 Claude Code in 10 Minutes

    The 10-Minute Quickstart
  3. 14 Slash Commands and Settings

    The Cheat Sheet
  4. 06 Parallel Subagents and Fan-Out

    The Swarm
  5. 21 Which Mode Right Now?

    Interactive, Plan, Auto
  6. 22 Resume, Replay, Fork

    Session Management
  7. 20 tmux, Worktrees, Named Sessions

    Running Six Claudes at Once
  8. 17 25 Operator Tips

    Hard-Won Wisdom from Hour 200
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IV
4 chapters

Policy and Discipline

Hooks turn ad-hoc prompting into policy. Permissions turn speed into safety.

Don't get owned. Don't skip the gates. Don't let the agent off the leash on your main machine. This part is the one most operators skim and most postmortems start with.

  1. 09 Blast Radius and Key Hygiene

    Don't Get Owned
  2. 15 When to Skip Permissions

    Permissions, Sandboxes, and Sharp Edges
  3. 16 Hooks and Custom Subagents

    From Autocomplete to Coworker
  4. 37 Context Files — CLAUDE.md, memory, skills

    Where Conventions Live, Where They Die
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V
16 chapters

The Building Site

From Saturday idea to deployed URL with receipts.

Six stages: ideation → foundation → creation → polishing → security → deploy. Plus cron, headless, vibe coding, evals, the bill. This is the part that turns reading into shipping.

  1. 31 Six Stages from Idea to Deploy

    Ideation, Foundation, Creation, Polishing, Security, Deploy
  2. 07 Scheduled Tasks

    Make AI Work While You Sleep
  3. 18 Headless Claude and CI

    claude --print in Production
  4. 19 Shipping a Product in a Saturday

    How to Build Products with AI
  5. 23 A Saturday Build, Hour by Hour

    Vibe Coding, with the Misfires Kept In
  6. 25 Evals — Smoke, Regression, Golden

    Evals or Hope, Pick One
  7. 29 Why Is My Bill So High?

    Token Math, Caching, Batch, Routing
  8. 30 When to Drop CC for the SDK

    Building with the Anthropic SDK Directly
  9. 38 Run Until Done

    Goals, Loops, and the Evaluator That Tells the Agent to Stop
  10. 41 Send the Link, Not the File

    Every Deliverable as a Live Artifact
  11. 45 The App Store Without Swift

    A Native iOS App, Real Recurring Revenue, and Not One Line of Swift I Wrote
  12. 46 Designing with AI

    A Model Can Generate Any Interface in Seconds. It Still Can't Tell You Which One Is Right.
  13. 47 The Measurement Layer

    When the AI Output Is the Product, a Three-Line Eval Isn't Enough
  14. 48 The Traffic Graph That Lies

    Agentic SEO Done Right vs. the Vanity Version
  15. 52 What Agents Can't See

    Two Review Rounds That Caught the Code, and a Menu Design Nobody Rendered
  16. 53 The First Real Caller

    A Spelled Email, a Busy Signal and a Grader That Was Too Kind
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VI
18 chapters

The Frontier and the Tier

Agents that talk, write, browse, and the honest tier list.

Voice, browser, persona, archetype agents. Two-agent infrastructure. Frameworks beyond Claude Code. Team adoption when twelve people need to use it. Failure stories with dollar amounts. The tier list, ranked without diplomatic phrasing. Plus the community skill ecosystem — what to steal and what to publish.

  1. 10 Hosted Agents, Local Models, Frontier

    The Wild Stuff
  2. 27 Voice Agents — STT, LLM, TTS

    Phone Number to Production
  3. 32 Agent Archetypes (Rick Platform)

    OpenClaw, NemoClaw, Hermes
  4. 33 Browser Agents with Playwright

    Login, Click, Scrape, Post
  5. 34 Persona Agents and the Four NEVERs

    Writing on Your Behalf Without Becoming a Bot
  6. 35 Codex or Claude Code — or Both?

    Day Shift, Night Shift
  7. 42 Codex on a Loop

    The Second Opinion, Proof-Checked While You Sleep
  8. 43 Codex as Saviour

    When a Second Prior Deletes 90,000 Lines and Hardens What's Left
  9. 36 When Do I Outgrow Claude Code?

    Beyond CC — CrewAI, LangGraph, SDK
  10. 39 Skills You Should Steal

    A tour of the 1M-skill ecosystem, the 73% that's broken, and the gaps an operator can fill
  11. 26 How Do I Get My Team to Adopt?

    Getting Twelve People to Use This
  12. 28 Six Failures, Six Bills

    The Receipts I'd Rather Not Show You
  13. 24 The Tier List

    Every Tool Ranked Without Mercy
  14. 49 GPT-6 Astra for Real Work

    Performance, Use Cases, and the Cost of a Finished Job
  15. 50 Claude Fable 5.1 for Difficult Workflows

    Best-Fit Workflows, Fallbacks, and Real Costs
  16. 51 Jev and the System One Layer

    Typed Questions, Calibrated Confidence, and the First Receipt From My Own Radar
  17. 54 Claude Opus 5.5 as the Default

    The Effort Dial, Early Stops, and a Week of Receipts
  18. 55 Claude Sonnet 5.5 for Everyday Work

    Same-Task Receipts Against Opus 5.5, and When the Cheaper Model Is Enough
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