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Your first 14 days with AI
From “what even is this” to a routine of your own. Ten steps, roughly one evening each — after two weeks you use AI for things you used to click through by hand.
Who it is forFor a complete beginner. Nothing installed and nothing paid for up front.
- Total time
- 2 h 6 min
- Steps
- 10
Progress
0 of 10 done
About 2 h 6 min left
AI for complete beginners: what to install on your computer and phone, and the difference between chat, Cowork, and Claude CodeTip · 20 min · in-depth guide, doing it ~2 h
You have one tool picked and installed, and you know how it differs from the rest.
Your first conversation with AI: the complete guide for absolute beginnersTip · 10 min · in-depth guide, doing it ~1 h
You write your first prompt that actually saves you something.
Role, context, task, format: anatomy of a prompt that gets work doneTip · 12 min · in-depth guide, doing it ~1 h
Answers stop being generic, because the model finally knows who it is writing for and why.
The first answer is a draft: the complete guide to iterating with AITip · 10 min · in-depth guide, doing it ~1 h
You learn to fix a result by following up instead of rewriting the prompt from scratch.
AI makes things up with total confidence. Verify itTip · 12 min · in-depth guide, doing it ~2 h
You spot when the model is making things up, and you know how to check.
A long document? Let AI make an excerpt with page numbersTip · 10 min · in-depth guide, doing it ~2 h
You get through a long PDF in five minutes and know what mattered in it.
AI writes the first draft, you write the final oneTip · 10 min · in-depth guide, doing it ~1 h
You no longer start an awkward email from a blank page.
Custom instructions: set up AI once, it applies foreverTip · 12 min · in-depth guide, doing it ~2 h
You stop repeating who you are and how you want things written.
Projects in AI: upload context once, not every timeTip · 15 min · in-depth guide, doing it ~2 h
Each piece of work gets its own space with its own source material.
A prompt library: don't rewrite what already worksTip · 15 min · in-depth guide, doing it ~2 h
You have a handful of prompts you use over and over — and you know where they live.
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What next
The path that follows
AI at the company: from pilot to production
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