Build with AI,
don’t just read about it.

Interactive tools, plain-English guides, and step-by-step paths that help you build AI apps, agents, and automations right in your browser.

What are you trying to do?

Pick a starting point. Each one is a hands-on path, not a reading list.

Go from idea to architecture: design the system, wire the tools, compose the agent.

Why AI gives bad answers, and how to fix it. Start here if your prompts disappoint.

Context windows, tokens, embeddings, RAG. The infrastructure behind every AI feature.

Connect triggers, schedules, tools, and AI into workflows that run themselves.

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CareerNew

Get hired in AI, free

The un-gated version of what a bootcamp charges $10k for: build real proof, drill the concepts interviews test, and present your work well. No job promised.

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How AI picks the next word

A play-with-it demo of how a model samples each next token. Turn the temperature up and watch it get wild, or down to greedy. No account.

Guide

Learn AI free vs paid

An honest comparison of free, interactive learning here against paid bootcamps and courses, including where paying genuinely wins.

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Your proof of doing

A live tally of what you actually did here, XP, streak, practice, and capstones, generated in your browser. Not a certificate we sell.

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Learning Path Builder

Say a goal, get a custom route through KB Cafe’s real guides, tools, and hands-on exercises. No signup.

Blog

Using AI to Create an Impressive Stock Tools Site for Investors, Swing Traders, and Day Traders

A build-in-public tour of StockTools.AI, the newest site in our network: a free, filing-backed research platform that tracks Congress trades, insider buys, whale 13F holdings, CEO pay, and AI research, all built with AI on top of public SEC data, for investors and traders.

Blog

New on KB Cafe: Practice in Every Lesson, Capstones, and a Path Builder

Our biggest update yet: interactive practice interleaved into lessons (try it live in the post), build-this capstones on every path, a streak and XP system, a learning path builder that composes real vetted pages, and two new guides. All free, no account, in your browser.

Lesson

How to prompt Claude Fable 5

Fable 5 rewards fewer instructions, not more. Effort as the main dial, and the migration gotcha that quietly falls back to Opus.

Lesson

How to build an AI agent

A chatbot answers; an agent acts. The five parts, the loop, the security, and a spec builder.

Client-sideRuns in your browser
PrivateNo signups or cookies
FastInstant, works offline
Dev-friendlyClean & keyboard-first
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The Plain-English Tech Dictionary: 83 AI, coding, and vibe-coding terms explained in one sentence, with an example and a next step.

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The AI toolkit

30 tools, grouped by what you need, the same way as on the tools page.

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The infrastructure of modern AI, from context windows to agents.

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