This is a literacy course aimed at onboarding someone with a holistic framework for understanding and leveraging AI. It’s not meant to be comprehensive, nor does it explore the many advanced prompting techniques. That can be pursued independently.
Each tier redefines what AI is in relation to you. In 101, it’s a tool—a kind of Iron Man suit that boosts your speed and strength when wielded deliberately. In 201, it becomes something more pliable: a teammate who can learn your preferences, adapt to your feedback, and help shape real work alongside you. At the 301 level, AI becomes infrastructure. It’s not a single assistant—it’s a small team in disguise. You plug it into multiple roles across the system: one AI drafts content, another refines structure and tone, another prepares it for final output—formatting, tagging, and staging it for publication. Each wears a different hat, but together they form a cohesive unit. What emerges isn’t just efficiency—it’s the shape of a new kind of team, built from language, logic, and delegation.
Though I am a professional developer, I’m not an AI expert. What you’ll find here comes after putting a colossal effort into absorbing beginner and intermediate materials. It attempts to make sense of it in practical terms, to bring others up to a similar understanding, and build on fundamentals that hold up across use cases.