Using AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini) for Life & Work.

!!! THIS IS STILL A NEWER COURSE LAUNCHED AUGUST 15, 2025 !!!

AI is quickly displacing many with more employers now requiring job candidates possess some level of “AI fluency,” yet despite this reality far too many courses from the leading generative AI companies are too technical or were created by instructors whose job it is to create content and have little experience in what they teach.

This course, on the other hand, was created by an entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience managing programmers, an entrepreneur that adopted generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) early into his software development workflows and has spent hundreds of hours across all major generative AI (GAI) models including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, xAI's Grok, and Google's Gemini, even if this course was designed for everyone, not just programmers. Its principles, concepts, and general-purpose prompts were intentionally designed to be broadly useful for students to professionals across industry from software development to law or finance, and so forth.

This course – Using AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini) for Life & Work: Key Principles, Concepts, and Prompts – was meant to address a gap: courses too focused solely on ChatGPT and on “tricks and tips,” so instead this course provides learners with an AI agnostic framework that first offers a foundation to help you to think and analyze things independently to ensure you can protect yourself against AI falsehoods (which might cost you your reputation or worst), before delving into the more specific aspects of how to utilize AI to amplify your productivity while also showing you how to use AI to learn new things.

Unlike other courses, this one respects you enough to trust you don’t need help figuring out basic features such as which button to click to pick a specific model. Instead, this course has chosen to cherry-pick key concepts and prompts derived from hundreds of hours spent across all leading generative AI models to provide you with a foundation to help you “figure things out” on your own by gradually building on what this course teaches.

It's a misbegotten, if not misleading belief that AI will think for you as well as solve problems for you. AI still, and for the foreseeable future, requires a human “pilot,” and this course teaches you how to control AI, not have it control you so that it remains as a “copilot.”

Remember, what matters the most is quality over quantity, and if you give this course an honest try, you’ll very likely come out stronger after only spending a few hours across a few days for a first pass that will help you decide what you’d like to internalize thereafter. And instructing is like telling a story, and as true of many stories, this course by necessity starts off a bit slow before picking up (especially in Section/Module III before getting more specific in Module IV), and yes, it may seem somewhat abstract at first, but it's all mostly connected so don't be surprised if after going through all of it you don't have an "Aha!" moment where you think, "...aha! Now that principle and concept make sense!" This will hold double true if you use AI for more complex workflows, not just occasional novelty.

Note: this course was wrapped up a few days before GPT-5 was launched, and as stated in the course, you’ll find what the course teaches still applies to GPT-5, not least as it seems to be a glitchy product (at least as of around the date it launched) forcing OpenAI to re-release GPT-4o after consumer pushback.