Learn AI

You start by using it: open a chat assistant (ChatGPT, Claude or any other) and ask it for help with a real task from your work or your home. You don't need to know how to code or understand how it works inside; what you learn most at the beginning is what you can ask it for, how to ask and when not to trust what it answers.

What's confusing is the number of things that seem compulsory: maths, neural networks, programming and a hundred new tools every week. To automate your life or your small business, almost none of that is essential at first. Another common mistake is learning a specific tool as if it were going to last for years; in AI tools change fast, and what stays is judgement: knowing how to explain clearly what you want, checking the results and spotting when the AI makes something up (that's called "hallucinating").

I'm still learning every day and I get things wrong like anyone else. I work mainly with Claude, but also with OpenAI, DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi and MiniMax, and locally I handle more than fifty models; with so much change, I've had to drop things along the way. In "What's no longer worth learning" I go through what I've been discarding and what I think is worth learning today.