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How software and AI actually work, one tap at a time

For people who build by talking to an AI. Every lesson lets you poke the real thing before we name it, takes a few minutes, and ends with a quick check. No account. Start at track 0, or jump to the question you have right now.

  1. 0What a computer actually does

    0/4 live

    What is running when I tap?

    1. 1. What is a program? · coming
    2. 2. What is memory (RAM)? · coming
    3. 3. What does a CPU do? · coming
    4. 4. What is a file, really? · coming

  2. 1The journey of a tap

    6/6 live

    What happens between my tap and the screen changing?

    1. 1. What is a URL?
    2. 2. What is DNS?
    3. 3. What is a request?
    4. 4. What is a server?
    5. 5. What is an API?
    6. 6. Frontend vs backend

  3. 2Where your data lives

    6/6 live

    Where do my users' details actually go?

    1. 1. What is a database?
    2. 2. Tables, rows and columns
    3. 3. What is a query?
    4. 4. Row Level Security, explained
    5. 5. What is Supabase?
    6. 6. Backups, and losing everything

  4. 3Who are you? (auth)

    0/5 live

    How does the app know it's me?

    1. 1. What is login, actually? · coming
    2. 2. Passwords and hashing · coming
    3. 3. Sessions and tokens · coming
    4. 4. What is 'Sign in with Google'? · coming
    5. 5. Authorization vs authentication · coming

  5. 4Making it real

    1/6 live

    How does my preview link become a real product?

    1. 1. What 'deploy' actually means · coming
    2. 2. Domains and HTTPS · coming
    3. 3. Hosting, and what it costs · coming
    4. 4. Environment variables and secrets
    5. 5. What is 'the cloud', really? · coming
    6. 6. What is an edge / CDN? · coming

  6. 5When it breaks

    0/6 live

    Why did it work yesterday?

    1. 1. What is an error log? · coming
    2. 2. What is latency? · coming
    3. 3. What is caching? · coming
    4. 4. Queues and background jobs · coming
    5. 5. What is scaling? · coming
    6. 6. Rate limits, explained · coming

  7. 6How the AI thinks

    0/9 live

    What is the model actually doing with my words?

    1. 1. What is a token? · coming
    2. 2. What is a context window? · coming
    3. 3. Why the AI 'forgot' · coming
    4. 4. Attention, explained visually · coming
    5. 5. Temperature and sampling · coming
    6. 6. Why it invents a library that doesn't exist · coming
    7. 7. What is a reasoning model? · coming
    8. 8. What are tools and agents? · coming
    9. 9. Local model vs API: what changes · coming

  8. 7Talking to it well

    0/5 live

    How do I get what I actually meant?

    1. 1. Prompting is writing a spec · coming
    2. 2. The verify loop · coming
    3. 3. How to read AI code without coding · coming
    4. 4. When to start over vs fix · coming
    5. 5. Which model for which job · coming

  9. 8Ship safely

    5/5 live

    How do I not get burned?

    1. 1. Before you share your app: the 6 checks
    2. 2. Row Level Security, explained
    3. 3. Your API keys are in the browser
    4. 4. Environment variables and secrets
    5. 5. The Moltbook lesson