The rate of change is accelerating. New developments are coming thick and fast.

You’ve been thinking “will I still be doing this in 5 years?”.

Doom-mongers are screaming “software development is over”.

Hype merchants are selling utopia.

Who will you listen to?

The World Still Belongs To The Builders

Shipping an AI demo is easy. Chain a few API’s, write a prompt, and you’re ready to go.

Right? Wrong.

You’ve seen the endless naive GenAI chatbots. They leak valuable IP, embarrass companies, and piss off customers with ludicrous hallucinations.

Getting AI right is hard. You need consistent results from an inconsistent tool. This is when most developers give up.

“I need a PhD in linear algebra.”

Nope. The world needs builders.

There are emerging techniques for getting better results from GenAI’s:

You don’t need to understand the low level complexities of pre-training models or hoard GPU’s to build with AI.

You can be an AI Engineer.

The AI Engineer builds applications and uses GenAI to deliver value to their team and their customers. You care about your users. You work with the state-of-the-art tools, patterns, and practices that get the job done.

You build.

Every Hero Needs A Guide

But how do you get from zero to hero? Especially when the world of AI is full of hype, nonsense and FOMO.

You need a filter. Keeping up with AI is a full-time job. I’ll keep out the crap, and give you only the good stuff.

You need a guide. You'll need to build and practice what you learn, starting small, and understanding how the skills of the AI Hero fit into the work you are doing today.

It won’t be simple. The ground beneath our feet is shifting all the time. But the rewards are immense.

Welcome to AI Hero

AI Hero is a cohort-based course that will run from March 30th through April 13th, 2026. Over two weeks, you'll gain access to weekly lessons each Monday and work on real-world engineering workflows with Claude Code.

When the live cohort is complete, you'll have lifetime access to all lessons, exercises, and the course code repo.

Each lesson is presented as snappy videos and hands-on coding exercises. You'll work alongside fellow cohort members in Discord, and there will be 6 live Office Hours across 3 days — staggered for different time zones.

Ready to join?

Hi, I'm Matt Pocock

Before creating AI Hero, I created Total TypeScript - the industry standard course for learning TS.

I was a member of the XState core team, and was a developer advocate at Vercel.

I'm building AI Hero to make the secrets of the AI Engineer available to everyone.

Matt is one of the best developer educators in the world.

Guillermo Rauch — Vercel CEO