I used to learn like this. Buy the cheap Udemy course, get three hours in, realize it was recorded against a version of the framework that no longer exists. Open twelve Stack Overflow tabs. Read the official docs, get stuck on step four, ping a coworker who is also busy. Then I would keep repeating this pattern until I gave up.
Learning a new framework in 2026 is easier than that. However it got easier in a different place than I expected.
Recently I was at Chain React. It's a React Native conference and for my talk I decided to really deep into the framework and learn it. I started doing the same thing I always did, reading the docs, buying courses etc. Then I realized I could use AI to speed up my learning. This is what I want to teach you today, with a few additional tips along the way.
Want to watch instead, check out my full video on the subject!
(Full disclosure before I start naming tools: I'm a Developer Advocate at AWS, and Kiro is an AWS product. It's the agentic harness I use daily. Everything here works the same in Claude Code, Cursor, or whatever you already have open.)
