Go from AI-curious to running your own agents. No code. No hype.
A step-by-step path, live help every Saturday, in-person workshops, and plain-English answers to your actual questions … from someone who's taught real people, not just written about it.
Office Hours
Bring an idea. Work through bringing it to life.
Show up with a problem (want to automate some process at your small business, accelerate your work, have a killer app idea, or just want to solve some problem?) and we can work together on screen. Watch other people building even if you don't bring an idea.
The Path
Five short lessons.
What AI actually is
Your first real automation
Meet your first agent
Connect it to your tools
Make it run every day
Blogs & Resources
Office Hours Sat @ 11am PST
Show up with a problem (want to automate some process at your small business, accelerate your work, have a killer app idea, or just want to solve some problem?) and we can work together on screen. Watch other people building even if you don't bring an idea. Check for the Zoom link below.
Build Your Own Baby Chatbot!
Work with ChatGPT to make a baby chatbot and download it to your desktop.
Roleplay: You're the Agent
We always interact with LLMs as the user prompting it. What if it were the other way around? Here's an agentic app simulation that helps a user plan a vacation. Try your hand at acting as the agent/model at key decision points.
LLMs Don't Remember You!
LLM's can't remember anything. Chat applications like ChatGPT cleverly facilitate a memory.
Stop Talking About AI Like It’s Human
Most of the time it's helpful to talk about inanimate objects using human-sounding terms, but personifying an LLM might actually muddy our understanding of the technology.
AI Isn't Magic: Explain It To Your Friends
Why does ChatGPT give different answers to the same question, and does that mean AI is unpredictable? This essay breaks down how large language models actually work, separating the underlying mathematics from the software wrapped around them to show why modern AI is far less mysterious than it first appears.
Updated every morning · No hype
Good-citizen gestures from AI firms, as money, rules and pollution questions mount.
Today was mostly the AI companies playing good citizen: Anthropic rolled out a free tool for schoolteachers and pledged $10 million to Canadian universities and hospitals. But the week's harder questions kept building underneath — who should share in AI's profits (OpenAI has floated handing the US government a 5% slice), who gets to regulate it (Washington is moving to override state AI laws), and who pays its environmental bill (three big tech firms' pollution has climbed to about a third of all of France's). The pattern from recent days holds: the loud product launches have quieted, and the fight has moved to money, rules, and consequences.
In-Person Workshops
I am currently working with the Alameda Recreation and Parks Department aiming to have multiweek, in-person classes available in Sept-October - stay tuned!
Ask Me Your AI Problem
Got a task you suspect AI could do — but don't know where to start? Describe it. I answer every one.
- Quick ones get answered in the daily digest
- Meaty ones become a full walkthrough post
- The best ones get built live at Saturday office hours