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# Animations are hard

> Not having the talent nor creativity, leaves you with one and only option - rely on people who have it.

- **Author:** Piotr Jura
- **Published:** 2026-08-03
- **URL:** https://agenticdeveloper.dev/articles/animations-are-hard
- **Tags:** Animation, Prompting

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Not having the talent nor creativity, leaves you with one and only option - rely on people who have it.

## The problem

I guess some of you can tell if a page is vibecoded or just looks bad, no matter how it was done. I know I can. 

This doesn't make me a designer though. We might have a decent taste, but creativity is unfortunately for us - something different.

## Finding the words

We have capable models like Fable, able to do magic. Unless you are always happy with the default result, you are out of options if you can't describe - with specific words - what it is you really want.

The only other option seems looking for inspiration, and trying to copy someone else's idea.

## How do you describe something you know nothing about?

That's the problem. People have been generating images with AI for a long time, but still some people do it much better - and it's because they can find words to describe what they want.

## The vocabulary and skills

Fortunately, people who know what they're doing create things like animation vocabulary and skills. I still see a problem with trying to understand something visual with words. I bet you can relate.

That's why I took [Emil Kowalski's vocabulary](https://animations.dev/vocabulary), and asked Fable to visualize the motion, including the prompt to make it happen.

[Motion](/motion) - you can find it here.

Emil [has this course here](https://animations.dev/) that will teach you animation.

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# Claude Code Mastery

> Build reliable agent workflows with Claude Code: skills, hooks, subagents, and production patterns that survive real codebases.

- **Author:** Piotr Jura
- **Published:** 2026-01-15
- **URL:** https://agenticdeveloper.dev/courses/claude-code

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Build reliable agent workflows with Claude Code: skills, hooks, subagents, and production patterns that survive real codebases.

## Outcome

You stay in the loop while agents do the work. Decisions get written down so the next agent follows them.

## Arc

Turns a developer who has heard of AI coding into someone who can drive Claude Code on real projects, solo or on a team. Setup and first tasks, then project memory (CLAUDE.md, git), advanced control (plan mode, subagents, skills, hooks, plugins, permission modes, sandboxing, worktrees), and a capstone where you join an existing codebase, configure the environment, and ship a feature with tests, review, and ADRs.

## Themes

- Stay in the loop. You steer; the agent builds.
- Agentic engineering vs vibe coding. Plans, tests, docs, and reviews for real projects.
- Make the agent ask before acting. CLAUDE.md, plan mode, clarifying questions.
- Layered safety. Prompts, hooks, permission modes, and sandboxing stack together.
- Parallelism as workflow. Subagents for isolated tasks; worktrees for parallel features.
- Share what travels, keep what is local. CLAUDE.md and team settings in git; .local stays out.

## Start here

### 001 — Introduction

Course goals, audience from beginner to experienced dev.

**Takeaway:** Stay in the loop as the AI codes.

### 002 — Installing & setting up

Install Claude Code, auth, trust folder, verify with the CLI.

**Takeaway:** Setup is the hardest part; everything after is simpler.

### 003 — Talking with code

Explore an open-source codebase with scoped, constrained questions.

**Takeaway:** Frame questions explicitly and state your level.

### 004 — Exercise: asking questions

Three targeted questions about a real codebase at your experience level.

**Takeaway:** Telling Claude your level prevents wasted answers.

### 005 — Models, context & usage

Tokens, 200k/1M context, /clear, Opus/Sonnet/Haiku, effort, /usage.

**Takeaway:** Reset context periodically; watch your usage ceiling.

### 006 — First coding task

CSV invoices to PDFs with @filename, permissions, and verification.

**Takeaway:** Clear prompts with constraints; let Claude handle mechanics.

### 007 — Vibe coding vs agentic engineering

Vibe coding for one-offs; agentic engineering for serious projects.

**Takeaway:** For real projects, document decisions and let agents enforce them.

## Project memory

### 008 — CLAUDE.md

Per-project and .local files, auto-appended, nested per directory.

**Takeaway:** CLAUDE.md travels across conversations and enforces conscious decisions.

### 009 — Building your CLAUDE.md

/init to seed then trim; merge examples; add project rules.

**Takeaway:** CLAUDE.md is personal and project-specific; treat it as code.

### 010 — CLAUDE.md in practice

Migrate JS to TS with unit tests under new CLAUDE.md rules.

**Takeaway:** CLAUDE.md guides agents to ask before acting.

### 011 — Voice input

/voice, Super Whisper, Whisper for transcription.

**Takeaway:** Voice captures thinking better than bullet points.

### 012 — Claude and git

Git basics with Claude doing the heavy lifting; worktrees introduced.

**Takeaway:** Worktrees let agents build multiple features at once.

### 013 — Using git with Claude

git init, GitHub SSH, paste docs as markdown, voice-drive git.

**Takeaway:** Claude can run setup commands; do not do it manually.

## Safety & teamwork

### 014 — Tool permissions

Allow/ask/deny per tool; bash scoping; shared vs .local settings.

**Takeaway:** Deny reads to .env, secrets, and production databases.

### 015 — What to commit

Commit CLAUDE.md, shared settings, subagents; ignore .local.

**Takeaway:** Share team settings; keep local overrides out of the repo.

### 016 — Co-author commits

Claude as commit co-author; includeCoAuthoredBy; rebase to clean history.

**Takeaway:** One setting strips Claude's co-author tag everywhere.

## Plan & delegate

### 017 — Plan mode

Plan first, build after; review and push back before commit.

**Takeaway:** You control direction before code is written.

### 018 — Using plan mode

Shift+Tab toggles; auto-accept or review; when planning pays off.

**Takeaway:** Planning costs upfront and saves time fixing mistakes.

### 019 — Subagents

Isolated workers, summaries back to main context; built-in and custom.

**Takeaway:** Delegate isolated chunks so the main agent stays focused.

### 020 — Build a review subagent

Read-only reviewer scoped to uncommitted code; markdown + frontmatter.

**Takeaway:** One job per subagent.

## Skills, hooks & plugins

### 021 — What is a skill?

Reusable prompts in .claude/skills/; command or auto trigger.

**Takeaway:** Skill = what should be done; subagent = where it runs.

### 022 — Build a command skill

Build a skill with Claude; name, command, restart to load.

**Takeaway:** Skills let you run a good prompt again on demand.

### 023 — Existing skills

skills.sh marketplace; audit before install.

**Takeaway:** Only use trusted skills; check the security audit first.

### 024 — Using skills in design

Install via CLI; auto-invocation; frontend-design skill demo.

**Takeaway:** A good skill changes output quality dramatically.

### 025 — Hooks

Non-negotiable rules on Claude Code events; block bad commits.

**Takeaway:** Prompts are preferences; hooks are things that must be true.

### 029 — Plugins

Bundle skills, hooks, subagents, MCP; install from folder or marketplace.

**Takeaway:** A plugin is a full workflow packaged as one install.

## Permission modes & sandbox

### 031 — Permission modes

Six modes from default to bypass; Shift+Tab to switch.

**Takeaway:** Start restrictive; bypass is last resort.

### 032 — Bypass / YOLO

--dangerously-skip-permissions; prompt injection risk; containers only.

**Takeaway:** Bypass mode is dangerous; use inside containers only.

### 033 — Auto mode

AI classifier blocks risky bash; respects in-chat rules.

**Takeaway:** Auto mode trades prompts for AI-based safety.

### 034 — Dontask mode

Deny by default; allow only via explicit rules; for CI.

**Takeaway:** Dontask inverts permissions: allow by explicit rule.

### 035 — Sandboxing

Filesystem and network wall; blocks compromised packages.

**Takeaway:** Sandboxing creates a hard wall bash cannot escape.

## Parallel workflows

### 036 — Git worktrees

claude -w branch checks out parallel folders; auto-cleanup.

**Takeaway:** Worktrees let agents work on separate features in parallel.

### 037 — Two agents at once

Multiple terminals, worktrees, auto mode, orchestrator pattern.

**Takeaway:** Multiple agents can build separate features at once.

## Capstone

### 038 — Capstone: joining a project

Technical onboarding; settings.json; CLAUDE.md vs agents.md.

**Takeaway:** Onboarding first; do not /init over an existing project.

### 039 — Setting up the environment

Testing setup first; agents.md rules; review plugins and skills.

**Takeaway:** Test setup first; agent rules in agents.md, DRY.

### 040 — Setting up hooks

Stop hook runs unit tests; file-change hook lints changed files.

**Takeaway:** Tests are mandatory; linting and e2e are advisory.

### 041 — Build the feature

Ship missing feature; subagents; tests as hard gate, review as advisory.

**Takeaway:** Tests are gates; reviews are suggestions.

### 042 — ADRs

docs/adr/ with index; document why for hard-to-reverse decisions.

**Takeaway:** ADRs document why, not what; agents read them before touching foundations.


Included in the The Agentic Developer Skool community.

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# Cursor for Engineers

> Go beyond autocomplete. Rules, context engineering, and team workflows for getting real work done in Cursor.

- **Author:** Piotr Jura
- **Published:** 2026-01-15
- **URL:** https://agenticdeveloper.dev/courses/cursor

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Go beyond autocomplete. Rules, context engineering, and team workflows for getting real work done in Cursor.

## Outcome

Cursor starts pulling real weight: less prompt babysitting, fewer context surprises, output that matches how your team actually ships.

## Arc

Moves you from treating Cursor as autocomplete to running it as a context-aware engineering tool. Short rules that fit in the window, deliberate multi-file edits, team-shared configuration, and workflows where the model knows your stack before it touches production code.

## Themes

- Rules that fit in context. Short, scoped, with examples the model can copy.
- Show, do not lecture. One good pattern beats ten paragraphs of preferences.
- Directory-scoped rules. Different folders, different constraints.
- Review standards over style opinions. Encode what must pass review.
- Team workflows. Shared rules, shared context, shared expectations.

## Rules that stick

### 01 — Why rules matter

Rules only help when the agent actually follows them in real edits.

**Takeaway:** If the model ignores your rules, the rules are too long or too vague.

### 02 — Keep them short

Context is finite; every line competes with your codebase.

**Takeaway:** Cut rules until removing one more would hurt output.

### 03 — Show, don't tell

One concrete example per rule beats abstract instructions.

**Takeaway:** Paste the pattern you want copied, not a description of it.

### 04 — Scope by directory

.cursor/rules per package or layer when stacks differ.

**Takeaway:** Frontend rules and API rules should not live in one blob.

## Context engineering

### 05 — Context windows

What gets included, what gets dropped, when to start fresh.

**Takeaway:** A clean chat with the right @-mentions beats a long polluted thread.

### 06 — Multi-file edits

Composer and agent mode for refactors that touch many files.

**Takeaway:** Name the blast radius before the model edits five directories.

### 07 — Review standards in rules

Encode test expectations, error handling, and API contracts.

**Takeaway:** Rules should describe what passes code review, not personal taste.

## Team workflows

### 08 — Shared team rules

Commit rules to the repo; onboard new devs with the same defaults.

**Takeaway:** The whole team should inherit the same agent behavior on day one.

### 09 — TypeScript & Next.js patterns

Starter templates for common stacks in the community.

**Takeaway:** Start from a template, then trim to your project's reality.

### 10 — Agents in Cursor

When to use agent mode vs inline edit; guardrails for production repos.

**Takeaway:** Agent mode for exploration; tighter modes when the diff must stay small.


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# Vercel AI SDK 7

> Ship production AI features with the latest SDK: streaming, tool calling, agents, and deployment on Vercel.

- **Author:** Piotr Jura
- **Published:** 2026-01-15
- **URL:** https://agenticdeveloper.dev/courses/vercel-ai-sdk-7

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Ship production AI features with the latest SDK: streaming, tool calling, agents, and deployment on Vercel.

## Topics covered

- AI SDK
- Streaming
- Tool calling
- Vercel deployment

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