Your First Week With AI: A Day-by-Day Plan
Seven days, about 15 minutes each, one real task a day. A copy-paste prompt for every day, and by day 7 you have your own reusable prompt list.
Why AI Makes Things Up: Hallucinations Explained
AI predicts likely words instead of looking facts up, and training rewarded guessing. Here’s why that creates confident wrong answers, and what reduces them.
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How to Use AI: A Complete Beginner’s Guide (2026)
Everything a beginner needs to start using AI: pick a free tool, ask good questions, copy prompts for work, home, learning and money, and check the answers.
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What AI Can Do Today: 12 Things It Does Well (and 5 It Can’t)
Forget the hype. Here are 12 things AI can reliably do for a normal person today, each with a prompt to try, plus the 5 things it still can’t do.
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The Complete Guide to AI Prompting (for People Who Aren’t Engineers)
Learn AI prompting without being technical. A simple framework, the mistakes to avoid, and copy-paste prompts for noticeably better results.
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AI Terms Explained: A Plain-English Glossary
A plain-English AI glossary: what a prompt, LLM, token, hallucination, context window, RAG, and AI agent actually mean, explained without the hype.
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini: Which AI Should You Use in 2026?
An honest 2026 comparison of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. See which AI is best for writing, work, coding, research, and free use, by real use-case.
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The 6 AI Prompts I Use Most (They’re Shorter Than You’d Think)
Most people think a good prompt has to be long and detailed. The ones I actually use most are 2-10 words. Here are the 6 short AI prompts I reach for almost every day — and why they work.
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How Good Are You at AI? The 4 Skill Levels (and How to Level Up)
Most people have no idea how skilled they actually are at using AI. Here are the 4 levels — AI Curious, AI User, AI Advanced, AI Amplified — and how to level up.
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About Beginner Basics
These guides assume you’ve never used an AI tool, or tried once and weren’t impressed. You’ll learn what tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are good at, where they go wrong, and how to ask for what you actually want.
Most guides include copy-paste prompts, and the main AI tools all have free plans, so you can follow along without paying for anything. Once the basics feel easy, the Prompting guides show you how to get sharper answers, and AI for Work shows how to use them in your job.
Not sure where to begin? Read what AI can actually do today, pick one of the free tools, and try it on a single real task this week. That’s enough to see where it helps you and where it doesn’t.