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Using AI Tools

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Choosing an AI Tool

You have three tabs open. ChatGPT in one, Claude in another, Gemini in the third. You paste the same question into all three, and you get three different…

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10 min read

Getting Started with ChatGPT

You're staring at a blank chat box. The cursor blinks. Somewhere in the back of your mind, a voice whispers: What if I type something wrong? What if this…

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Using Google Gemini

Gemini is two things at once: Google's family of AI models and the chatbot that lets you talk to them. For your first session, you don't need to care about…

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Using Open Source LLMs

Running an open source LLM on your own machine today feels closer to installing a desktop app than building a neural network. You don't need a data center,…

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AI Tools Practice Exercises

Reading about AI tools builds recognition, not skill. Skill comes from running the tool, inspecting the output, and making one small change to see what…

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