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Explain Like I'm Shipping vs Tutorial Gap Finder
The short answer
Explain Like I'm Shipping teaches a concept you have not used yet, through the smallest version you could build. The Tutorial Gap Finder is for when you are already mid-tutorial and stuck on one step. New concept, use the first. Broken step, use the second.
Explain Like I'm Shipping
Learn a concept by making the model explain the smallest version you could ship this week, then quiz the gap.
- You paste
- Name the concept and the project. One paragraph: the idea you are trying to learn, the thing you are actually shipping, and the constraint (an afternoon, a language, a database you already have).
- You get
- The quiz. Three questions: where the key is stored, what a second POST returns, and what you do if the key arrives empty.
- When to use it
- Use it when you can recite the definition of something like idempotency or OAuth and still freeze when you try to add it to your project.
- When to skip it
- It is not a full course. It teaches the smallest version you could ship this week and quizzes the gap, then stops.
- Runs in
- ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Shelf
- Learning
Tutorial Gap Finder
Paste the tutorial's outline and the step where you got stuck. Get the missing lesson, not a repeat of the steps you already did.
- You paste
- Paste the outline and the stuck step. Include the error text and what you already completed. A gap finder that rewrites the whole tutorial is wasting the part you finished.
- You get
- Stop. If it still 401s, the next paste is the header name from --help, not another install step.
- When to use it
- Use it when a tutorial skipped the step that failed on your machine and rereading the steps you understood does not find the hole.
- When to skip it
- It does not repeat the tutorial. If the gap is your environment, it tells you what to paste next instead of guessing.
- Runs in
- ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Shelf
- Learning
Questions
What is the difference between Explain Like I'm Shipping and Tutorial Gap Finder?
Explain Like I'm Shipping teaches a concept you have not used yet, through the smallest version you could build. The Tutorial Gap Finder is for when you are already mid-tutorial and stuck on one step. New concept, use the first. Broken step, use the second.
Are Explain Like I'm Shipping and Tutorial Gap Finder free?
Yes. Both are free prompts from One Agent a Day under CC BY 4.0. Explain Like I'm Shipping runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. Tutorial Gap Finder runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini.
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