Vibe coding won't save your career.

Those, who want to control AI must understand engineering.

And it’s not rocket science.

The best free resources to get started:

• System Design 101 by ByteByteGo (GitHub): github.com/ByteByteGoHq…

• Engineering Visual Guides: bytebytego.com/guides

• Become a Supabase Pro in 1.5 Hours (1:26:39): youtu.be/dU7GwCOgvNY

• Overview of HTTP by Mozilla: developer.mozilla.org/e…

• HTTP Request Methods: developer.mozilla.org/e…

• The most important concepts of Node.js and Express.js (17:09): youtu.be/2YIgGdUtbXM

• Every React Concept Explained in 12 Minutes (11:52): youtu.be/wIyHSOugGGw

• TypeScript - The Basics (12:00): youtu.be/ahCwqrYpIuM

• CSP Guide by Mozilla: developer.mozilla.org/e…

• OWASP Top 10: owasp.org/www-project-t…

• Getting Started with Lovable: docs.lovable.dev/introd…

• Replit AI Agent, Full Course: youtu.be/DaXQ5L7r7Lg

• n8n Masterclass: youtu.be/AURnISajubk

• How to Integrate Supabase with Clerk: clerk.com/docs/integrat…

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Guides for those building AI-powered products:

• How To Build, Deploy, And Scale Your AI Product Strategy: productcompass.pm/p/ope…

• 14 Prompting Techniques: productcompass.pm/p/pro…

• AI Evals: productcompass.pm/p/ai-…

• Error Analysis: productcompass.pm/p/eva…

• A Guide to Context Engineering: productcompass.pm/p/con…

• AI Agent Architectures: productcompass.pm/p/ai-…

• 17 Penetration & Performance Testing Prompts: productcompass.pm/p/pen…

• 3-Layers Distribution Framework To Win Market Share: Subscribe to get notified: productcompass.pm/subsc…

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Finally, learn by doing (no coding, understanding tech):

• LLM Chatbot: productcompass.pm/p/llm…

• RAG Chatbot: productcompass.pm/p/how…

• Voice Agent: productcompass.pm/p/n8n…

• Multi-Agent Research System: productcompass.pm/p/mul…

• Separate DEV/TEST/PROD: productcompass.pm/p/lov…

• Full-Stack App with Lovable (2:00:00): productcompass.pm/p/ful…

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+My favorite tools:

• Database: Supabase

• Vector store: Pinecone

• Coding agents: Lovable (easiest), Replit, Cursor (most advanced)

• Hosting: Netlify, Vercel

• Authentication: Clerk

• Hardening: Cloudflare

• Transactional emails (avoid SPAM): Postmark

• SEO for SPA apps: Prerender

• Cache: Redis + Netlify

• Storage: S3

• Analytics: Clarity, PostHog

• Logging: Logtail

• Metrics: Grafana

• Feature flagging: GrowthBook

• System status: Uptimerobot

• Payments: Stripe

• Agentic workflows: n8n (easiest), LangChain (most advanced)

• Evals off-the-shelf: LangSmith

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What did I forget?