From the author of A Beginner's Guide to ChatGPT
Clear answers to the questions people actually ask about AI, from your first prompt to building agents. Every article answers a main question and the one that comes next, with sources you can check.
Each article starts with a question and a two-sentence answer, then explains it with examples.
Prompts you can copy, exercises, and free tools built from the book's method.
Two or three sources per article, primary sources first, and a date on everything.
New to AI? Learn what ChatGPT and other assistants are, how to ask well and how to check the answers.
See the pathUse AI on real tasks: refine prompts, build custom assistants, understand what changes in your job.
See the pathAPIs, coding agents, MCP and personal agents: from the first API call to automation.
See the pathLet a larger model such as Claude Sonnet 5.5 plan the job and write the final answer, and hand the many small, repetitive pieces in between to Claude Haiku 5.5, each with narrow instructions and a fixed…
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GPT-5.5 left Codex on October 14 for everyone signed in with a ChatGPT account, so any default, saved setting, custom agent, scheduled task or script that still names gpt-5.5 needs a new model, usually…
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If you subscribe to Google AI Pro or Ultra, you can try Gemini 4 Argon now in the Gemini app and in AI Mode in Search; developers can call it through the paid tier of the Gemini API in Google AI Studio.
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Pick three or four candidate models, one per role you need (a strong model for hard work, a mid-priced one for daily work, a small one for volume), then run the same ten to twenty of your own tasks through…
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You can use Muse Wonder in two ways today, through Meta's Model API under the name muse-wonder-1.0 or inside Muse Code, Meta's coding agent.
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Mistral Large 4 is available as a public preview through Mistral Studio and the Mistral API, where you select it under the name mistral-large-4.
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From the automata of ancient myth and the 1956 workshop that named the field to this month's releases: a dated, sourced timeline of AI.
In April 2023 Robert Scales published A Beginner's Guide to ChatGPT, written with GPT-4 as co-pilot. This site grows that method into a guide to all of AI.
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