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AI Foundations the patterns that work everywhere

Before you go deep on any single AI tool, learn the prompt patterns and mental models that make every one of them better. Tool-agnostic. Always free.

Lessons 5 lessons live
Time ~40 min total
Level Beginner → Intermediate
Price Free

Lessons in this track

Each lesson stands alone — but they build on each other if you take them in order.

01

Specific friction & the constraint stack — the two upgrades that change everything

Watch four AIs attempt the same task, see why their first drafts all sound generic, then learn the two prompt patterns that produce dramatically better output on any AI: specific friction and the constraint stack.

~10 min read 4 playground exercises Hands-on
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02

Spotting hallucinations before they cost you

Every AI makes things up sometimes. The skill isn't avoiding hallucinations — it's recognizing them fast. The 4 patterns that should trigger a fact-check, and the 3 prompt tricks that drop hallucination rates dramatically.

~8 min read 3 playground exercises
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03

Which AI for which job — a decision framework

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Grok — they're not interchangeable. A simple decision tree for picking the right AI by task type, plus the use cases each one wins.

~7 min read 2 playground exercises
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04

When NOT to use AI

The cases where reaching for AI costs you more than just doing it yourself. Recognizing them saves you from looking like the person who lets AI write everything (including the bad parts).

~6 min read
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05

Privacy, data, and what NOT to paste into an AI

Customer data, internal docs, NDAs, code — what's safe, what's risky, and the simple workflow that lets you use AI on sensitive work without giving away the farm.

~7 min read
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