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public The world moves.
Every week we pick a real story that is changing how work gets done — a policy vote, a court ruling, a market shift, a farm bill, a grid warning.
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Learn the work that's coming — through the stories happening right now.
Bot That Lyfe drops a new animated series on YouTube every week, with a free workbook attached. We take what's moving in politics, business, law, agriculture, sustainability and beyond, and break down the engineering, data, AI and agentic AI principles underneath it — so college students and working professionals stay engaged with real course material and ready for the work hitting the market.
New series · The CurveMost of the class is failing discrete math. A free animated course that teaches proofs picture-first — with homework and an answer key.
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Nathan BakerFounder, Bot That Lyfe · AutoNateAI
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The Curve
Discrete math, proofs, and the semester five strangers almost failed — Don't tell me. Prove it.. 6 episodes, 39 minutes, a free workbook — start here.
route How It Works
Real stories in. Real skills out.
Edutainment with a syllabus: the story keeps you watching, the structure makes it stick, and the workbook makes it yours.
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neurology We go underneath it.
An animated episode breaks down the engineering, data, AI and agentic AI principles inside that story — and the science of why they work, so it actually sticks.
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construction You build the skill.
A free workbook with exercises, templates and real code; written lessons that go deeper; and a Discord full of people building the same things.
hub The Domains We Cover
One method, every domain.
The same fundamentals — systems design, data, AI and agents — show up in every industry the news touches. We follow the story wherever it breaks.
Politics & Policy
AI legislation, public procurement, public records, a city posting an RFP for a chatbot.
Underneath it: Document AI, retrieval over public records, agentic research pipelines, evaluation and audit trails.
Business & Markets
Earnings calls, pricing moves, operations under pressure, the next hiring wave.
Underneath it: Data modeling, forecasting, workflow automation, and agents that act on real systems.
Law & Compliance
Copyright rulings on training data, contracts, privacy, the compliance deadline nobody planned for.
Underneath it: Provenance, verification, access control and auditability — building AI you can defend.
Agriculture & Food Systems
Farm bills, commodity margins, water rights, precision agriculture in the field.
Underneath it: Sensor data, time series, geospatial analysis and decision support.
Sustainability & Energy
Grid demand, data-center power, climate risk, the economics of clean energy.
Underneath it: Forecasting, optimization, simulation and systems thinking.
And Whatever Moves Next
Education and the workforce, health, cities and infrastructure — wherever the work is changing this week.
Underneath it: The same fundamentals, applied where the story is.
visibility Inside an Episode
See exactly what you're walking into.
Every frame below is from a real episode. No stock footage, no talking-head lecture — a story you'll want to finish, with the real artifact on screen.
groups Who It's For
Built for people who want to be ready.
College students
Stay ahead of the syllabus. Learn the tools and judgment internships and first jobs now assume — with stories you'll actually remember on exam day.
Working professionals
Upskill without a bootcamp. Twenty minutes a week to understand how AI and agents are reshaping your industry — and how to build with them.
Educators & teams
Every season ships with a program brief: outcomes, delivery options and assessment ideas for courses, cohorts and onboarding.
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Every episode starts with real, sourced research.
Funding, policy, markets, labs and jobs — researched and cited before it ever becomes a story.
AnsweredPurdue's $100 Million AI Workforce Program Answers to the Navy. Nobody Else's Does.
As universities move from standalone AI courses to industry-governed pipelines, compute infrastructure, internships, and federally funded consortia, who is actually shaping the technical workforce: faculty, federal agencies, or the companies sitting on advisory boards?
AnsweredFlorida Turned Its Supercomputer Into Plumbing. 30,800 People Now Just Use It.
What changes when a university stops treating AI as a course or lab and starts operating it like shared infrastructure — compute, models, data, training, governance, and access for thousands of users?
AnsweredAn AI Agent Just Learned to Turn a Jammed Microscope Knob. MIT Spent Today Asking What Happens If One Gets Hacked.
Are the most commercially important AI agents about to leave browsers and IDEs and enter laboratories, factories, robots, and supply chains — and what new verification, cybersecurity, and systems skills does that create?
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Go deeper with the written courses.
Every season links to full written lessons — JavaScript, prompt and context engineering, databases and graphs, and agentic AI — with copy-ready code.
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code How Nate and Kai Started Bot That Lyfe
Intro to JavaScript for Beginners
Follow Nate and Kai — one self-taught builder, one civic-tech idea with nowhere to go — from a meetup back room to their first working JavaScript. Six chapters. Real code, real diagrams, real banter, no fluff.
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psychology Nate and Kai Learn to Talk to the Machine
Prompt and Context Engineering
Hand-coding everything doesn't scale for two people building a studio. Nate and Kai start directing an AI agent and both get burned in different ways, until they learn that prompting and context are real skills, not just typing a question.
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database Nate and Kai Build the System of Record
Relational Databases and Graphs
Contacts, ideas, and feedback from every meetup are scattered across notes and memory. Nate and Kai build a real database to track them: tables, SQL, and a graph model for when the relationships get too tangled for rows and columns.
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account_balance Nate and Kai Take Their First Real Ask
Civics and Agentic AI
Prompting, context, and data — the studio has the skills now. This pack turns them outward: reading a real RFP, researching the organization behind it, and sketching a real system for the exact civic problem that started it all.