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Use this when you want Ben Tossell's material for ai news and related AI skills.
AI-curious professionals should start here when they need ai news, tools, and workflow discovery. The strongest fit is a learner who wants material in these formats: newsletter, guides.
Use it to notice tools, then validate with docs or hands-on tests. After that, open one related resource below and write down the exact workflow, concept, or implementation pattern you want to apply.
Useful for lightweight discovery of AI tools and trends, best paired with deeper resources. Use this profile when you are comparing educators by topic, level, format, and practical usefulness rather than browsing random AI content.
Compare the skill coverage, the starting recommendation, the educator's own resources, and any videos when available. If you need ai news, search the directory for that skill and shortlist three profiles before committing to a course, book, or playlist.
| Resource | Kind | Level | Use when |
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LLM Fundamentals
Matt Pocock
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Free tutorial | Beginner | You need clear mental models for system prompts, tokens, context windows, tools, and agents before building or using AI systems seriously. |
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How To Make Codebases AI Agents Love
Matt Pocock
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Guide | Intermediate | You want to improve a codebase so AI agents can navigate it, run checks, make smaller changes, and recover from mistakes more reliably. |
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Hugging Face MCP Course
Hugging Face
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Free course | Beginner to intermediate | You want a free structured MCP path with concepts, assignments, SDKs, and a certificate route. |
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Building Coding Agents with Tool Execution
DeepLearning.AI
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Short course | Intermediate | You want to understand how coding agents use tools, inspect code, run commands, and iterate on software tasks. |
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Claude Code: A Highly Agentic Coding Assistant
DeepLearning.AI
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Short course | Beginner to intermediate | You want a structured Claude Code course before using it on a serious codebase. |
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Codex changelog
OpenAI
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Release notes | Beginner to advanced | You need the current Codex feature timeline before teaching a workflow that depends on new app, CLI, subagent, skill, or MCP behavior. |
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OpenAI Secure MCP Tunnel
OpenAI
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Guide | Intermediate to advanced | You need to expose a private MCP server to OpenAI products without opening inbound firewall ports or publishing the server on the public internet. |
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OpenAI tools guide
OpenAI
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Guide | Intermediate | You need the official overview of built-in tools before deciding between plain model calls, retrieval, web search, or computer-use workflows. |
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Gemini coding agent setup
Google AI for Developers
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Guide | Intermediate | You want Google's official setup path for Gemini-driven coding-agent workflows, Gemini Docs MCP, and skills rather than generic prompt advice. |
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Gemini function calling
Google AI for Developers
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Guide | Intermediate | You need Gemini's current tool-calling patterns before building agents, structured automation, or app-side orchestration. |
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OpenAI Codex
OpenAI
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Official product docs | Beginner to advanced | You want the current OpenAI path for agentic software engineering, code review, and background coding tasks. |
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Custom instructions with AGENTS.md
OpenAI
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Guide | Beginner to advanced | You want the official OpenAI guide for durable repo instructions, nested overrides, and agent-ready project context. |