🚀 Over the last few weeks I completed the 'Exec Build with AI' programme from Hustle Badger, led by Ed Biden, with a small group of fellow Product Directors, VPs and CPOs. It was a really safe space to get hands-on with tools such as Lovable, Cursor, and GitHub – I highly recommend it. 🔑 My key take-aways from the course: 1️⃣ Strategic urgency of AI adoption: mastering AI tooling is no longer optional - for product-led organisations, it’s a critical leadership capability. 2️⃣ Hands-on tooling experience: unlike the myriad of conceptual programmes out there, this course gets you to do real work: designing simple AI agents, building automations, and prototyping working features via no-code/low-code tools. 3️⃣ Rapid tooling evolution: the ecosystem of AI platforms and tools is changing weekly. But the tool is not the objective - the objective is how we use and understand them. 4️⃣ Starting is straightforward, scaling is complex: it’s easy to build a minimum-viable “AI feature” quickly, but moving to a robust, enterprise-grade solution still needs engineering discipline, product architecture, and governance. 5️⃣ Use-case selection is critical: the most value is delivered by identifying internal or MVP use-cases where AI can actually deliver meaningful impact. 6️⃣ Know the limitations: tools like Replit and Lovable can get you halfway there, but you’ll soon hit bugs and spend hours (!) trying to fix them - the key is moving to an IDE tool like Cursor at the right time. 💡 In summary: if you are a product leader, this course gives the confidence and concrete frameworks to transition from “we should experiment with AI” to “we are executing with AI.”

Last week I finished the Hustle Badger “Build with AI” course, I loved it. Why I did it: Because I realised I was falling behind. I didn’t know where to start, felt overwhelmed by the options, and wanted to build confidence in a way that felt fun and supportive. Why you might want to: If you need a nudge, some guidance on tools, and a safe space to get tripped up without shame—this is it. Highly recommend. What I loved / learned: The course was hands-on, with weekly homework and a looming demo session that added just enough pressure to keep me motivated. The downside? It suckered me in. I spent way more time than I was meant to. I now have a new level of empathy for devs who stay up late fiddling with code. My project, a very basic household chore manager, had me hotspotting from my phone in the car (as a passenger!) to deploy changes during a family day out. Who even am i? Highlight of the course? When I entered a prompt to add a new feature and Replit replied: “Now I will have to rewrite the entire homepage.” To every software engineer I’ve ever worked with, I felt your collective eye-roll in that moment. I’m sorry. Beyond the usual “AI speeds up prototyping” stuff, what I really learned is this: these tools help clarify your thinking. They force you to get specific about the problem you’re solving because the feedback is so quick, and that’s gold. You’ll see a theme from me on this: leaning into our humanness amidst the AI noise. Now that I can prototype faster, I get to spend more time where it matters, playing in the problem space and getting creative.

I am pleased to share that I have completed an intensive AI course with Hustle Badger and am now officially AI certified. A big thank you to Ed Biden for being such a fantastic teacher. Over the course we covered: 🤖 Building Automations (N8N, Zapier) 🛠️ Building working prototypes (Replit, Lovable, Figma Make, Durable, Ghost) 🌐 Creating functional websites and apps (Low-code tools + Git+ Cursor) 💡 Prompting for the best results I built: - A personal portfolio (to be shared asap) - An app to help nurses identify dressings for wounds - An automation to send me weekly summaries of industry news - An AI-prompted travel quiz - A working chatbot prototype I will share shortly a step-by-step for my network on all of these topics, but for now, a well-deserved weekend break! 👉Link to course --> lnkd.in/eK-6pTVZ #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #FutureOfWork #DigitalSkills #AICertification #AIForBusiness

Can I say that Hustle Badger's AI Agents course is extremely good? 🔥 We've just started week 3 from 4, and it's already one of the most valuable courses I've taken in the last two years. Not only you learn what AI agents are and how to build them (sequential, parallel, routing, feedback loops). But also the systems you build in the exercises are very very very very very practical in your daily work as product managers or as solopreneurs (like me) or freelancers. ↳ A social media post writing agent. ↳ Your own RAG or second brain. ↳ Reddit analyser. ↳ Email classifier. ↳ Text optimiser. ↳ And Evals & MCPs for all the crazy things you want to build. If you are a very busy person who needs accountability, dedicated time to build, someone who can directly help when you're stuck, and people to get inspiration from their solutions and to celebrate with when it finally works, this is for you. Because at the end of the 4 weeks you have built the above systems, are motivated to build more and know how to do it. Great investment of time and money. Absolute worth it. Well done Hustle Badger.

What could you build with AI? Vibe coding is all the rage these days. It's absolutely astonishing what you can create in a couple of hours with an AI agent and a few carefully crafted prompts. But what are the limitations of these tools, and they overhyped? Or have we only just started scratching the surface on the potential for creativity and innovation unlocked by removing the barriers created by lack of technical coding skills? I had great fun messing around with Replit, Lovable and Bolt for a few weeks before discovering the Build with AI course from Hustle Badger - lnkd.in/eBRUxcfK. The course provides a really good grounding from AI automation and API integration, to prototyping and graduating to an AI ID It's been a bit of a rollercoaster journey. Like many I was super hyped by the initial thrill of how easy it was to spin up slick looking websites in minutes. This is so easy, I thought. Huge pat on the back for being so clever. And yes, if all you want is something that looks pretty, that's where it stops. However here are some of the things I learnt in the last 4 weeks: 🤖 You cannot rely 100% on the AI agent, there is only so far you can go without having an understanding of the code you are building. 🪲 You are going to have to develop grit and resilience to help you debug. 🏗️ Prototyping tools (Replit, Bolt, Lovable) are fun but to build something that's more complex might better in an IDE which is powerful but perhaps not so much fun or quite as accessible. ☑️ Don't assume consistency across different agents when building code. Thanks Ed Biden for being a great instructor. Beyond the technical skills learnt in the course, it provides a lovely community and I've learnt as much from my cohort as I did from Ed. Oh, and that reminds me of my last takeaway from the course... 💡 Creativity is infinite. I was absolutely blown away by the variety of different ideas and designs that our cohort came up with over the space of a month. Give vibe coding a go, who knows what creativity it will unlock!

A great few weeks learning how to build with AI. Thanks to Ed Biden and Hustle Badger for the guidance, support and excellent course materials. If you’re looking to get hands on with AI agents in an accessible way whether for your day job or side hustle check out lnkd.in/e5UyG6j2

Over the past few months I got to dive much deeper into agentic AI and vibe coding and completed 2 amazing hands on courses from Hustle Badger - Build with AI and AI Agents. If you want to cut through the buzz into actually building useful apps and workflows using Relay.app , n8n , Supabase , Cursor and all the other fancy tools you are hearing about daily, I can’t recommend enough what Ed Biden and his team are offering!

Vibe coding is real and fun. I just published my first end-to-end web app using Google AI Studio, Vercel, and Cursor as part of the Build with AI course from Hustle Badger Breakpoint.zone is a web app 📱+💻 that tracks real-time ATP, WTA, Challenger, and ITF tennis tournaments. 🎾 🧠 Google AI Studio helped generate front-end mockups from natural language prompts. 💻 Cursor handled the backend logic, APIs, and data bindings with minimal manual editing. 🔌 API integration with a tennis data provider for live scores. 💳 Stripe connected seamlessly for payments and donations. 🧩 GitHub tracked iterations and bug fixes along the way. The best part, testing it live while following today's Paris Masters ATP final between 🇮🇹 Sinner and 🇨🇦 Auger-Aliassime

I am doing the jobhunting course. I really like the simplicity and the format as well as the actionable tasks. I now have much more clarity on my career and next steps.

🚀 Just wrapped up the Build With AI live cohort with Hustle Badger — and it was one of the most practical, hands-on courses I’ve taken. Here’s what I built during the program: 🧠 AI Agent in Relay → Summarizes all my newsletters into one clean Slack message → Took minutes to build, but saves hours of brain clutter 💪 Workout App Prototype → Built in Bolt + Cursor with OpenAI + Supabase + Stripe → Used LLMs to generate PRDs and style guides → Turned ideas into interactive prototypes 🧰 Resilience Boost → Debugging builds in real time gave me a whole new appreciation for my engineering partners 😅 (shoutout to Darshit Lakhani for being on call) Huge thanks to Ed Biden for the thoughtful content and constant unblocking — and to my amazing wife for handling the toddler + newborn chaos during my early morning calls with my new UK friends. If you’re curious about how to build with AI — even as a non-engineer — I highly recommend checking out Hustle Badger. #AI #LLM #HustleBadger #ProductManagement #BuildWithAI #OpenAI #Relay #Bolt #Cursor #NoCode #AIProductManager

I recently completed Build With AI, a four-week intensive course led by Ed Biden at Hustle Badger, focused on helping product leaders and founders ship real AI-powered tools. The emphasis was on execution, not just theory. Each week ended with a working product. 📔 What I learned: • Building AI agents and chaining automations • Making API calls and using AI in workflows • Prototyping from scratch via vibe coding tools - Replit, Bolt, V0, Loveable • Creating specs, design docs, and brand direction with LLMs • Debugging with AI tools, integrating GitHub and Stripe • Graduating to AI-powered IDEs for full builds 🛠️ What I built: • A Relay-powered daily email that pulls key news and weather via APIs • Functional games such as Pong and Oregon Trail with my kids • A fitness app prototype with AI-driven workout planning and Stripe payments 💡 The biggest shift wasn’t technical, it was building confidence in using tools that solve real problems, both at work and at home. It was also great to team up and learn with product leaders Pippa Topp, Jason LaRocca, John Connolly, Alex Thom, Aktar Somalya, Sarah Milton, Ben Blake, Casey Lord, Debbie Widjaja. Exploring how AI fits into product leadership? Always happy to trade notes.

Loved joining this first AI sprint. Everyone brought great energy, curiosity, and excitement to explore what these tools can do. We learned together, dealt with the challenges of "vibe coding", and had fun along the way. I finally built an app called winegpt.app, an idea I’d been putting off for a while and honestly might have never developed without this sprint. Totally recommend.

Appreciate the weekly demo and networking sessions which has been a source of inspiration to learn and get feedback from co-participants. I have already recommend the course to community of UX and Product team in my workplace. The course has helped uncover how to turn ideas to prototype.

Super practical and low-key, this cohort gave me the push to actually try building with AI instead of just thinking about it. Weekly tasks kept it real, and the group setting made it feel collaborative, not performative. Ed kept the vibe supportive and grounded — a great way to get hands-on without the usual hype.

I highly recommend Build with AI to anyone interested in delivering into the world of AI building. Ed’s guidance made all the difference - he was always on hand to clarify concepts yet stepped back enough for us to experiment and learn by doing. The class itself was thoughtfully structured, giving us a rapid-fire dive into real AI tools without ever feeling overwhelming. It struck the perfect balance of direction and freedom, leaving me confident to keep building on my own.

Hustle Badger's Build With AI course was fantastic! The structure helps you gain a foundational understanding of AI coding tools quickly and with each week building on the next you walk away with a new toolset to bring all sorts of ideas to life. It's been a game-changer for me in terms of how I test things at ideas and optimise my workflow.

The templates are incredibly helpful, and even when I don't use them exactly as they're made, they are fantastic inspiration to help me create something new. I appreciate the tips and insightful communications. I regularly share them with the Product Managers I work with, and often, it sparks thoughtful conversations.

I joined Hustle Badger a few months ago, after being made redundant and wanting to brush up on product topics and network better. The courses online are so well put together and easy to do self paced, and there are tons of other amazing resources. I also love the Slack community - product people asking each other questions and giving advice and sharing ideas. I’m happy to say that I found my next role as a PM through this network! I’d recommend HB to anyone wanting to learn more about product, or build up their network with amazing like-minded product people.

Practical advice and helpful guides for PMs. Hustle Badger is my trusted product advisor for meaty topics. It reminds me to raise my head up to see the bigger picture of day-to-day tasks and focus on how to sustainably run a great product team.

Concise and inspiring content from product guru Ed Biden. You'd be foolish not to pay attention.