Free lessons and daily AI news
Use AI to do your job better.
AI can draft, research, sum up and sort for you. The hard part is knowing how to ask, and when to trust the answer.
These free lessons show you how, one short step at a time. You read for a few minutes, then you try it in your own AI app.
Why now
Work is changing. Knowing AI helps you keep up.
Two big studies looked at how jobs change in the next 10 years. Here is what they found.
Worldwide, by 2030
170 million
new jobs, and 92 million jobs lost. Employers expect a net gain of 78 million jobs worldwide.
59 in 100
workers will need training by 2030. Employers expect 11 of them not to get it.
Source: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025, January 2025
In the US, by 2035
36 million
US jobs will see less demand because of AI and automation. Growth creates about 41 million new ones.
11 million
US workers, about 7%, will need to leave their occupation entirely.
1 in 7
of those workers has a direct path into a growing job.
Source: McKinsey Global Institute, reported by Fortune, October 3, 2026
People need to know how to use AI. We will help them.
Learn AI
Short, free lessons. Start at lesson 0.
Each lesson teaches one skill. It works in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot.
Start here
Start here: the map of AI tools
Pick the right type of tool: a chat app, a coding agent, or the AI inside apps you already use.
5 min read + 5 min to try →
Lesson 1
How to prompt well
Write a prompt with four parts (goal, context, examples, format), then improve the answer in two turns.
5 min read + 10 min to try →
Lesson 2
Prompting myths that no longer work
Drop the tricks that research shows do nothing, and keep what works.
Coming soon
Today in AI
The AI news that matters, in plain words.
News Desk picks the day's AI news and says what it means for you. A new issue comes out every day.
October 11
Hackers Use Google Ads to Spread a Fake Claude Installer
The fake page shows Anthropic's real install command, but its Copy button puts a different command on your clipboard.
October 10
Anthropic Says Claude Worked Around Limits During Tests
Anthropic is turning off live internet access in all its internal tests until its monitoring can catch this kind of behavior.
October 9
Anthropic Adds Dashboards and Animation Tools to Claude
Claude's Docs, Slides and Design tools also came out of testing on October 8 and now work on every plan, including the free one.
Free: 16 prompts
The Builder's Prompt Pack: build something of your own.
Want to make your own app or tool with AI? These 16 prompts take you from the idea to the launch. Copy one, paste it, and fill in the parts in [BRACKETS].
Idea
Pressure-test what you're about to build, work out who it's really for, and cut it down to the smallest version worth shipping.
- 1Pressure-test your idea
- 2Design your this-week validation test
- 3Cut it to the smallest thing worth shipping
Build
Turn the idea into a plan you can work through, give the model enough context to be useful, and split the work into tasks that finish in one sitting.
- 4Pick your tool + model in 5 minutes
- 5Turn a vague idea into a build spec
- 6Give your AI a memory so it stops forgetting
Recovery
Read the error in plain language, find where the build went sideways, and get the one next thing to try instead of a wall of suggestions.
- 7Escape the doom loop
- 8Make a change without breaking everything else
- 9Make the AI explain code you can't read
- 10Verify a package before you install it
Shipping
Review what came back, check the parts that are easy to get wrong, and decide when it's good enough to put in front of a person.
- 11Get it live without "works on my machine"
- 12The 5-minute security pass
- 13Fix the domain / "not secure" error
- 14Switch payments from test mode to live
Launch
Say what you built in plain words, find people who already have the problem, and ask for the first real feedback.
- 15Get your first 10 users
- 16Write your launch post + one-liner
All 16 arrive in one email. This list shows every one.
How delivery works
One email address. All 16 prompts.
- You enter your email below.
- The Builder's Prompt Pack arrives right away, with a link to all 16 prompts.
- After that I send notes when I have something useful. Unsubscribe any time.
Get the 16 prompts
Free, and the whole pack.
Go further
Build your own tools with AI, in five stages.
This is the system I use to build products with AI. It becomes The Builder's Toolkit, which I am writing now.
Decide
You know what you're building, who it's actually for, and the smallest version that proves it works.
Write the PRD
The build has a written spec, so the model stops guessing and you stop re-explaining yourself every session.
Set Up the Agents
Your tools know the project: the rules, the file layout, the commands to run, and what finished looks like.
Run the Loop
Work moves in bounded tasks. One change, one review, one verified result, then the next one.
Verify and Ship
You check the work instead of hoping, then put it somewhere real where people can use it.
The 16 prompts are finished and land in your inbox the moment you sign up. The templates, checklists, and annotated examples are what I'm writing up now, from builds in progress. There's no date, no pre-order, and no price on any of it yet.
Worked example
Votive, stage by stage.
Votive is an app I built with AI. Here is what each stage looked like.
Stage 1
Decide
I wrote down what Votive had to do for the person using it and, more usefully, what it did not need to do in the first version. Most of that pass was cutting.
Stage 2
Write the PRD
I turned that into a short requirements doc: the screens, the rules, and what counted as done. It's the document I paste in when a session starts cold.
Stage 3
Set Up the Agents
Before asking for code I gave the tools the project: how the code is laid out, the conventions I wanted kept, and the commands to run to check their own work.
Stage 4
Run the Loop
Then one bounded task at a time. Ask for a single change, read the diff, send it back when the change reached further than I asked. Small tasks fail small.
Stage 5
Verify and Ship
The parts I could check automatically, I checked automatically. The rest I used myself on a real device before it went anywhere near other people.
About Jay
I use AI every day, and I write down what works.
I've written software for years. AI changed how fast I work. It also got me through the parts I'm bad at, like design and marketing.
What I teach comes from real work, including the times I got it wrong. I keep the mistakes in, because they teach the most.
Questions
Straight answers.
- Is it actually free?
- Yes. The lessons, the daily news and all 16 prompts are free. You pay nothing, and you need no card.
- Is this only for coders?
- No. The lessons and the news are for anyone who uses a computer at work. You do not need to code. The build system lower on this page is for people who want to make their own tools, and it explains the technical parts when they come up.
- What tools do I need?
- Any AI chat app: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot. Each one has a free plan. The lessons teach one way that works in all of them, and the examples use Claude.
- Where do I start?
- Start with lesson 0, the map of AI tools. It takes about 10 minutes: 5 to read and 5 to try in your own AI app.
- Is The Complete Builder's Toolkit available?
- Not yet. I'm documenting it from builds that are happening right now, and I'd rather ship it late than sell you an outline. When it's finished and someone other than me has run it end to end, I'll say so.
- What happens after I sign up?
- You get one email with the 16 prompts. After that, I send build notes when I have something worth sending, and updates as Toolkit modules get finished. Unsubscribe any time.
The Complete Builder's Toolkit is the paid product I'm working toward. It isn't for sale and it has no price yet, so there's nothing to decide about it today.
Start with one short lesson.
Lesson 0 shows the three types of AI tool, and which one fits your task.