48.5 A "choose your next step" map

Decision Map

What do you want to do next? Follow the path:

START: What's your goal?
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├─▶ "I'm new to AI Studio"
│   └─▶ Part I: Foundations, Part II: AI Studio
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├─▶ "I want to build a simple app"
│   └─▶ Part III: Beginner Track, Part V: Intermediate
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├─▶ "I need to improve prompt quality"
│   └─▶ Part VI: Practical Workflows, Topic 39: Expert Prompting
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├─▶ "My app is too slow or expensive"
│   └─▶ Part XI: Performance & Cost, Topic 45.5: Slow/Expensive
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├─▶ "I need to process files/images"
│   └─▶ Part VII: Multimodal
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├─▶ "I need my app to use my data"
│   └─▶ Part VIII: RAG & Grounding, Topic 41: Advanced RAG
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├─▶ "I'm worried about security"
│   └─▶ Part X: Security, Topic 46.5: Security Checklist
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├─▶ "I want to build agents"
│   └─▶ Part XIII: Expert Mode, Topics 37-38
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├─▶ "We're a team, not solo"
│   └─▶ Part XIV: Team Workflows
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└─▶ "Something is broken"
    └─▶ Topic 45: Failure Modes, Topic 46: Checklists

Congratulations! You've reached the end of the Vibe Engineering Guide. Go build something amazing.