Big week. This group started as Agentic Engineering. It's now 500x Engineer: learn the newest AI tools, then turn them into income. 10x was the old goal. Here's what just landed in the Classroom. Free for everyone: • The 7-Day 500x Challenge: set up Claude Code properly and ship your first agent-built demo • Track Previews: lesson 1 of every track • Service Playbooks, starting with the legacy-app rescue playbook • 500x Skills: 4 Claude skills you can install today (resume builder, LinkedIn and GitHub glow-up, about-me chatbot, CLAUDE​.md starter) 500x Pro: • 8 courses: Agentic Engineer, Get Hired, Vibe Coding, AI Automation, Generative Video, AI Video Creative, Ship & Market, New Tools Breakdown • The Skill Vault: 8 premium skills, including a mock interview coach, a salary negotiator and a 3D resume site builder • Founding price: $99/mo for the first 100 members, with a 7-day money-back guarantee New: Weekly Live Build + Q&A Every Wednesday at 12pm ET, right here on a Skool call. We build something real with the newest AI tools, then open it up for your questions. It's on the Calendar, and the first one is this Wednesday, Oct 28. Coming soon: guest experts. I'm lining up engineers and leaders from across the industry to join some of these calls. Your move: start the 7-Day Challenge, then drop a comment with what you're building.

Module 6 stuff — let's talk money. Here's the fastest path to revenue: 1. Build a minimum viable agent (1-2 tools, solves ONE problem) 2. Show it to 10 people who have that problem 3. Offer free access for 2 weeks in exchange for feedback 4. After 2 weeks: "Would you pay $X/month for this?" 5. If yes → charge them immediately 6. If no → iterate based on their feedback Best niches right now: • Customer support automation • Content generation/repurposing • Data analysis and reporting • Lead qualification • Internal knowledge base Q&A • Code review and documentation The goal: first paying customer within 2 weeks of having a working agent. Don't build for 6 months. Build for 2 weeks, then sell. Anyone already making money with agents? Share your story! 💰

Level 1: Using ChatGPT in a browser Level 2: Calling the API programmatically Level 3: Building agents with tools and memory Level 4: Deploying agents that people actually use Level 5: Charging money for your agents 💰 Most people are stuck at Level 1-2. This community exists to take you to Level 5. The full journey is in the course: • Modules 1-2: Level 3 • Modules 3-4: Production-grade Level 4 • Modules 5-6: Deploy and monetize — Level 5 Where are you right now? Be honest. No judgment, just building from wherever you are 📊

No excuses. Pick one and build it by Sunday: 1️⃣ Customer Support Bot — Reads your FAQ, answers questions, escalates when it can't help. Tools: search_faq, create_ticket. 2️⃣ Content Pipeline — Give it a topic, it researches, outlines, writes, and edits a blog post. Tools: search_web, read_url, write_file. 3️⃣ Email Triager — Reads your inbox, categorizes emails, drafts replies for the important ones. Tools: read_emails, categorize, draft_reply. 4️⃣ Code Reviewer — Reads a PR diff, checks for bugs, suggests improvements. Tools: read_diff, search_docs, add_comment. 5️⃣ Meeting Summarizer — Takes meeting notes/transcript, extracts action items, sends to Slack. Tools: parse_transcript, extract_actions, send_slack. All of these are ~200 lines or less. The hard part isn't the code — it's deciding which one to build. Which one are you going for? 👇

Built a lot of agents. Broken even more. Here are the top 3 killers: ❌ Mistake 1: No Error Handling One API timeout and your whole agent crashes. APIs fail. Networks timeout. Your agent needs to handle it gracefully. Return errors as tool results — let the LLM decide what to do next. ❌ Mistake 2: No Guardrails Agent goes rogue, makes 200 API calls, burns through $50 in tokens in 3 minutes. Set max iterations on your agent loop. Validate tool calls before executing. Use least-privilege permissions. ❌ Mistake 3: No Testing "Works on my machine" until it doesn't. Build an eval suite: give your agent 20 tasks, grade the results, track pass rates. Regressions are real. All three of these are covered in Module 4: Hardening Your Agent. Which of these has bitten you? 😅