Studio 1 begins with building. Not a warm-up, not a lecture — you will be writing software within the first few minutes.

So arrive ready. There is no time to configure anything once the session starts.

Set this up before the session

• Your AI of choice — Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, Copilot, whatever you actually use — signed in and ready to write code.
• Your IDE of choice, installed and open.
• Your language of choice. No language is better for this. Use the one you move fastest in.
• A new, empty project — created and opening cleanly, with your AI connected to it.
• Your Explorer Workbook, downloaded and open.

Test the whole path once

Before the session, run it end to end: create the project, ask your AI for something small, and confirm it can actually read and write in your workspace. Ten minutes now protects the first twenty minutes of Studio 1.

Also worth checking

• Camera and microphone working.
• Enough screen space to keep your IDE and the session visible at once.
• Your cohort’s session link — on the Live Session page for each Studio.
• A quiet space for the full session.

Bring a real piece of your own work

Not for Studio 1 itself, but for what follows it. Each Studio ends with a field experiment you run on your own work during the week. Having a real task, bug, or feature already in mind keeps those experiments concrete instead of theoretical.