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Getting Started with AI

Ten short modules, then a build project for your portfolio. No jargon, no hype — just what actually works.

1. What AI actually is (and what it is not)

Cut through the noise: what today's AI tools genuinely do, what they cannot do, and why the difference matters for your work.

5 min read

2. How language models work, without the maths

Tokens, training, context windows and sampling: just enough of the machinery to explain the strange behaviour you will run into.

8 min read

3. Your first genuinely useful prompt

The four ingredients that separate a prompt which produces generic filler from one that produces something you would actually send.

6 min read

4. Context: the biggest quality lever you have

Why pasting in your own material transforms results, how to give a model what it needs without oversharing, and what "training it on my data" really means.

8 min read

5. Hallucinations and how to catch them

Why AI invents facts with total confidence, which situations make it most likely, a checking routine that takes under a minute, and how grounding changes the odds.

8 min read

6. Iterating: treating AI as a draft partner

The people who get the most from AI rarely accept the first answer. Here is how the back-and-forth actually works.

5 min read

7. Where AI helps, and where it quietly hurts

A practical map of tasks worth delegating, tasks to keep, and the ones that look like wins but cost you later.

6 min read

8. Privacy: what never to paste in

Where your data actually goes, what data protection law means for you in practice, and a rule you can apply in two seconds.

6 min read

9. Choosing the right tool for the job

Chat tools, reasoning models, search-connected assistants and document tools: what the categories are, when each one matters, and what the product wrapped around the model is doing.

7 min read

10. Building an AI habit that survives next month

Most people try AI, find it interesting, and quietly stop. Here is how to turn what you have learned into something that sticks.

5 min read

Capstone · A three-prompt kit for the work you repeat every week

Build the file module 10 told you to keep: three tested prompts for your recurring weekly work, a standing context block above them, and a verification line under each.

75 min to build

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