AI, without the hype. Without the homework.
A normal person's questions about AI deserve normal answers. What should I try first? What is worth my time? How do I actually use this in my work and life?
No course to sell, no framework to push, no five-step funnel. Just hand-built browser tools and honest field notes, so anyone a few steps behind me can skip the same wrong turns. If you have ever felt that AI was either over-sold to you or written above your head, you belong here.
- Readers 4,100+ and growing
- Years in tech 20+ in SDLC and Consultant roles
- Posts published 24 and counting
- Utility runs 220+ across the site
Hand-built utilities, free to use.
Small, focused, browser-only. No install, no signup wall - continue with your existing Google account once and the toolkit is yours.
Turn a one-line idea into a model-ready prompt.
Role / Objective / Background / Data - the framework that pulls precise answers out of any chat model. Free with a Google sign-in, 5 generations a day.
- Structured CO-STAR output
- Attachment-aware
- JSON or plain-text export
AI Jargon Buster
One-paragraph plain-English explanation of any AI term, with a real-world analogy.
Open →Meeting Summarizer
Drop in raw notes; get decisions, action items, and owners - in the format your stand-up actually wants.
Open →Latest posts.
Field notes from a working professional learning AI in the open - honest, sourced, written in his own voice.
I did not know AI existed until 2022. Here is how it works.
Understand how large language models work without the math: what tokens are, why next-token prediction explains AI hallucinations, and what to read next.
I kept getting generic answers. Few-shot prompting fixed it.
Few-shot prompting uses worked examples to guide AI output. Learn when zero-shot, one-shot, or few-shot gets you a precise answer without repeated tries.
Chain of thought prompting changed how I read AI answers.
Chain-of-thought prompting turns an LLM into a deliberate reasoner. Learn why forcing intermediate steps reduces AI errors and how to design the chain.
A toolkit and a point of view.
Who's behind this
Twenty years in software - development, QA, and now Consulting - learning AI in public.
Read about →Tools for AI aspirants
Small, focused web tools - continue with your Google account once to start using them.
Open utilities →Field notes on AI
Long-form posts from a working professional learning AI in the open - honest, sourced, written in his own voice.
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