Learning Paths

Start with skills, not tool shopping

This page is for deciding what to learn next. Tools are here only when they help you choose, build, test, or ship better.

Full shelf: 43 useful paths and references

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Builder Scope Review

A practical pre-build checklist: user, workflow, riskiest assumption, edge cases, review gate, and kill condition.

ProductBuilders

ProductAITechnical
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AI Coding Workflow: Spec, Build, Review

How to brief coding agents, keep context tight, inspect diffs, and turn implementation into a learning loop.

ProductBuilders

AITechnicalProduct
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Product Discovery Skill

Learn to choose the right thing before you build: customer trigger, current workaround, pain, and proof.

ProductBuilders

ProductResearch
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LLM Evaluation Skill

Design evals, regression checks, and review gates that match real user outcomes instead of demo scores.

ProductBuilders

AIAnalyticsTechnical
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Product Analytics Skill

Use events, funnels, cohorts, and qualitative notes to decide what to keep building, change, or kill.

ProductBuilders

AnalyticsProduct
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GitHub Spec Kit

Spec-driven workflow kit for turning specs into tasks and implementation slices.

GitHub

TechnicalProductAI
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Best Practices for LLM Evaluation

Guide to choosing eval methods and measuring model changes reliably.

OpenAI

AIAnalyticsTechnical
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Product Talk

Teresa Torres on continuous discovery habits, opportunity solution trees, and AI-augmented research.

Teresa Torres

ProductResearch
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OpenAI Agents SDK (Python)

Docs for building tool-using agents, including guardrails and orchestration patterns.

OpenAI

AITechnicalProduct
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promptfoo

Test and evaluate prompts and LLM apps with automated comparisons and CI integration.

promptfoo

AIAnalyticsTechnical
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AI Evals for Product Teams (Maven)

Cohort course on designing evals that catch regressions and measure real user outcomes for AI products.

Maven

AIAnalyticsProduct
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BMAD Method

Multi-agent spec-driven development framework for orchestrating AI agents across the product lifecycle.

BMAD

AITechnicalProduct
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Addy Osmani's Blog

Deep dives on engineering productivity, spec-driven development, and shipping with AI assistance.

Addy Osmani

TechnicalAIProduct
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AI Product Management Specialization

Practical AI product workflows from opportunity framing to implementation.

DeepLearning.AI

AIProduct
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Build an AI Chatbot with the Vercel AI SDK

Course covering production chat UX, streaming, tools, and deployment workflows.

Vercel Academy

AITechnicalProduct
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Builders Camp Membership

Training tracks, bootcamps, and a community focused on becoming a product builder by shipping.

Builders Camp

ProductTechnicalDesignAnalyticsMarketing
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Building AI Agents

Foundations for orchestrating LLM-based agents and workflows.

DeepLearning.AI

AITechnical
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LangGraph Persistence

Memory and persistence patterns for agent state, checkpoints, and resumability.

LangGraph

AITechnical
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LangSmith Evaluations

Evaluation, tracing, and dataset workflows for LLM apps and agents.

LangChain

AIAnalyticsTechnical
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Lenny's Newsletter

Tactical product and growth writing from experienced operators.

Lenny Rachitsky

ProductMarketing
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Lenny's Podcast

Interviews with product leaders, founders, and builders.

Lenny Rachitsky

ProductMarketing
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Model Context Protocol (MCP) Docs

Official specification and guides for MCP, the open standard for connecting AI models to tools and data.

Anthropic

AITechnical
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OpenAI Evals

Open source framework for building and running LLM evaluations.

OpenAI

AIAnalyticsTechnical
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OpenSpec

Spec-driven development framework for writing product specs that drive implementation.

OpenSpec

TechnicalProductAI
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Reforge Programs

Advanced growth and product strategy frameworks with operator case studies.

Reforge

ProductMarketingAnalytics
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TRANSFORMED

How product operating models and empowered teams change outcomes.

Marty Cagan

ProductSoft Skills
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Aakash Gupta's Product Growth Newsletter

Weekly breakdowns of product growth mechanics, AI product trends, and operator playbooks.

Aakash Gupta

GrowthProductAI
Course

AI Product Builder Program (Zenith Studio)

Cohort program focused on idea → spec → architecture → code → testing → deployment with AI.

Zenith Venture Studio

AITechnicalProduct
Course

AI Product Management (Colab Cohorts)

Cohort course for integrating AI into products with a practical playbook and peer network.

Colab Cohorts

AIProduct
Course

Cursor for PMs (Maven)

Cohort course teaching product managers to build and ship with Cursor and AI-native dev workflows.

Maven

AITechnicalProduct
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Growth.Design

Behavioral UX breakdowns and growth design case studies.

Growth.Design

DesignMarketing
GuideFree

LlamaIndex Memory

Design memory strategies for agents and RAG systems (short-term + long-term patterns).

LlamaIndex

AITechnical
NewsletterFree

Product Compass

Pawel Huryn's newsletter on modern product management, AI workflows, and builder mindset.

Pawel Huryn

ProductAI
Book

Product Thinking by Melissa Perri

Systems-level product strategy and outcome orientation.

Melissa Perri

Product
Community

Product-Led Growth Collective

Playbooks and discussions around product-led growth motions.

ProductLed

MarketingProduct
ProductBuilders Space