Training

The freedzhost training: learn to develop your own code, assisted by AI, on your own machine — not depend on an AI that codes for you.

The doctrine

Coding with AI is good. Developing your own code assisted by AI is stronger.

Coding with AI ("vibe coding"): you describe, the AI generates, you paste. It works for a Sunday prototype. But the day it breaks — and it does — you debug code you did not write, do not understand, and that the AI no longer understands after the third generation.

Developing assisted by AI: you lay out the architecture, you write the decisions, you read every diff — and the AI does what it does best: speed, tests, documentation, variants. The model proposes, the code decides, and you arbitrate. That is the posture we teach, because it is the one that lasts: code you understand gets fixed, code you suffer gets paid for.

Prerequisites

No developer level required. However, you need the basics — and each one is already covered by a free tutorial on the site:

• A terminal and not being afraid of it — reading an error, running a command, understanding what a file path is.
• Git, just enough — save, roll back, read a change. (Forgejo CI tutorial.)
• Knowing what a server at home is — a running machine, a port, a local IP. (Hardware, Homelab Proxmox.)
• A local model that answers — the first ollama run or llama.cpp. (First model tutorial.)
• The curiosity to read what the AI writes — this is the prerequisite we cannot tutorial-ize; the rest can be learned.

Each training module starts by checking these basics with you, and points to the free tutorial that fixes them if they are missing.

The curriculum

• M1 — Solid foundations: terminal, git, reading generated code
• M2 — Your first local agent, understood end-to-end
• M3 — The homelab that runs it 24/7
• M4 — Developing a real project assisted by AI, from brief to deployment
• M5 — Full sovereignty: voice, data, mobile, secrets

What if code puts you off?

No desire — or no time — to learn languages? It is not an end, it is a different path, and it is honorable. Self-hosted no-code tools already do almost everything:

• n8n — block-based automation: connect services, local models, webhooks, without writing a line. (Already covered by our tutorials.)
• PocketBase / Baserow — a database and auth with a real admin interface: your member area, your lists, your content.
• Appsmith / Tooljet — drag-and-drop internal interfaces, connected to your data.
• Home Assistant — whole home automation through visual automations.
• WordPress / static + forms — to publish without developing.

Our honest position: no-code takes you far, and the training takes you there too — several modules are entirely playable in no-code. But every coding concept you accept to understand (not write: understand) multiplies what no-code can do for you. A prompt that knows what an API, a webhook, or a database is gets results from AI that a prompt without vocabulary will never get. So we offer two doors, and they meet.

The member platform

The training will be offered on a dedicated platform: structured courses, exercises, access to a community of people building the same path. Coming soon.

Until then, start with the free tutorials.

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