From no coding experience to independently shipping software
Mentoring a designer with no coding or language-model experience over many months, from fundamentals to building complex applications, including a personal agent they develop and operate on their own.
Over several sessions across many months, I worked with a designer to help them build a personal agent, before today's off-the-shelf personal-agent products existed. They run it on their own computer and reach it through a number of different chat interfaces, and they build features for it entirely from their phone.
When we started, they had no coding experience and no experience with coding agents or language models. We worked up from fundamentals: how to effectively steer language models, how to manage context windows, and how to get the most out of models while avoiding pitfalls.
From there we moved on to coding agents. Today they independently build complex applications: the personal agent itself as well as design productivity tools for their professional role.