Solo studio & school

Build things
that think.

One operator, shipping real games and AI products in public — then teaching exactly how each one was built. Pick the on-ramp that matches your work and start reading free — no account, no card.

Explore the University → Explore the Arcade SDK →
Free modules across 3 tracks No account needed to start Built by one operator, shipping weekly
Choose your track

Three tracks. Pick the outcome you want.

Each track is a self-contained curriculum built from shipping real production work — start reading free, no account needed. Want all four tracks plus the live community? Subscribe to Experimenters.

For builders

Vibe Coder Expansion

The AI-first generation — if you can prompt code into existence but never learned to engineer it. Because vibes alone won't ship and operate a real product.

  • Take a working prototype to a stable, launch-ready product — and know exactly when to stop tweaking and start hardening
  • Make AI output trustworthy and close the security holes it leaves — TDD, code review, prompt-injection, secrets & supply-chain
  • Ship and scale like a product team — release engineering, CI, observability, and cost control so it survives real users
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Most popular
Second Brain → Claude Cowork

IT Pros

Anyone whose job is information work — IT, ops, consulting, marketing, education, legal, healthcare, finance.

  • Put Claude Cowork to work — delegate real multi-step tasks to the agent in Claude Desktop, alongside you in real time
  • Cut your busywork in half with recipes for Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini
  • Build a Second Brain and a Team Brain your whole team can run
Read this track free →
Running AI in production

Vibe Management

Eng leaders, platform teams, AI-first founders, solopreneurs babysitting their own agent stack.

  • Run agents in production without blowing the month on inference costs
  • Get fleet observability and per-task budget attribution across your stack
  • Ship incident runbooks for the day an agent causes the outage
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The Experimenters

Or just subscribe — and join the room.

Not ready for a Pack? Become an Experimenter for $5/mo or $45/yr: the same Discord, the weekly build call, daily office hours, and premium modules across all three tracks. The room where the work actually happens — and where pings get answered.

Explore the Experimenters → Or just join the Discord
The PickBits Arcade SDK

One account layer across a growing arcade.

PickBits.ai is the technical side of the arcade: shared sign-on, cloud saves, achievements, leaderboards and entitlements. The complete playable library and development stories live at PickBits Studio.

SDK integration proof · free to play

Steel Phoenix

A connected vertical rogue-lite using PickBits identity, cloud saves, achievements and leaderboard history—the kind of shared platform capability the SDK adds without swallowing the game itself.

Play Steel Phoenix → Join the playtest Discord
Steel Phoenix gameplay — your ship firing up through bullet patterns past planets in a vertical shmup
See the SDK architecture → Browse the full Studio library
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