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AI in plain English, from someone who ships real products with it.

Lessons on what today’s AI systems are, how to work with them, and how to build with them.

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AI Foundations

What AI actually is, how these models work under the hood, and where they break. Start here if the whole thing still feels like magic.

  1. 1What AI Actually Is (In Plain English)
  2. 2How Language Models Actually Work
  3. 3Why AI Makes Things Up, and How to Spot It

Prompting That Works

The difference between a mediocre answer and a genuinely useful one is often the prompt and what you put behind it. These are the patterns worth knowing.

  1. 1The 5 Rules of a Good Prompt
  2. 2Context Is Everything
  3. 3Four Prompt Patterns Worth Knowing

Tools in Practice

How to tell which AI tools are worth your time, and how to fold them into the research and writing you already do.

  1. 1Which AI Assistant Should You Actually Use?
  2. 2Using AI to Research Without Getting Burned
  3. 3Writing With AI Without Sounding Like AI

Building With AI

Go from using AI to building with it. Automations, agents, and the small projects that keep teaching you once reading about AI plateaus.

  1. 1Your First AI Automation (No Code Required)
  2. 2What an "AI Agent" Really Is

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Tools I built for my own use, with AI. None of them is for sale.

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The lessons are taught in order, one idea at a time, in plain English.