Learning paths

Pick a path through the library

Three sequenced routes through the AINews guides, each shaped for a specific role and goal. Work through them in order, or jump in wherever you are.

Zero → AI-augmented operator

For: Anyone who works in an office and has never seriously used AI for their job.

You will be able to: You can use AI confidently for your everyday work — research, writing, meetings, email — and you know when to trust it and when not to.

65 min total·8 guides·About 65 minutes of reading, ~4 weeks at 15 min/week if you space it.

Engineer → AI-coding fluency

For: An engineer who can already code but wants to use AI as a serious coding collaborator, not just a fancy autocomplete.

You will be able to: You can run agentic coding workflows, ship faster without shipping more bugs, and you know how to ground AI output in your codebase instead of letting it invent things.

90 min total·9 guides·About 90 minutes of reading, ~6 weeks at 15 min/week.

Founder → AI-augmented operator

For: A founder running a small company who needs to use AI across the full job — research, customer work, product decisions, hiring, comms — without delegating judgment to it.

You will be able to: You can use AI as a real collaborator for the founder job, ship AI features without embarrassing yourself, and avoid the predictable "we built an AI thing and it broke" outcomes.

95 min total·9 guides·About 95 minutes of reading, ~5 weeks at 20 min/week.

Designer → AI-assisted workflows

For: A designer who wants to use AI across the design workflow — generation, prototyping, brand consistency — without losing the craft.

You will be able to: You can use AI to move from idea to clickable prototype faster, stay on-brand, and ship interactive design artifacts without waiting on engineering.

55 min total·7 guides·About 55 minutes of reading, ~3 weeks at 20 min/week.

PM → AI-aware product thinking

For: A product manager who needs to ship AI features that work, scope what is realistic, and avoid the common "we built an AI feature and it embarrassed us" outcomes.

You will be able to: You can scope AI features realistically, choose the right architecture (prompting / RAG / fine-tuning / agents), evaluate whether they are working, and avoid the predictable failure modes.

75 min total·7 guides·About 75 minutes of reading, ~3 weeks at 25 min/week.

Want a path that does not exist yet?

Paths are sequenced curations of existing guides. If your role or goal is not represented here, the underlying guides usually are — browse the full library and assemble your own.