People who feel behind
You keep hearing you should be using this. You opened it once, typed something, got a wall of text, and closed the tab. That is a completely normal first experience and it is not your fault.
AI without the hypeFor normal peopleEst. Santa Barbara
You don’t need to understand AI.
You need one thing that works.
Everyone has been told this changes everything. Almost nobody has been told where to actually start. I’m Peter — artist, engineer, thirty years of building things — and this site is the plain-language version I wish someone had handed me.
01No jargon, ever
02Free to read, all of it
03Honest about the limits
04Written by one human
01 / What this is
A calm place to figure this out.
There are roughly nine million people online right now explaining how AI will change your life. Most of them are selling a course. This is the other thing: a small, free, plainly-written site that assumes you are smart, busy, and not remotely interested in becoming a prompt engineer.
I’m not going to tell you AI changes everything. Some of it changes a great deal. Most of it is noise. Sorting those two out is the entire point of this site.
Creatives who are suspicious
You have real, legitimate concerns about what this does to creative work. I do too — I’ve painted and sculpted my whole life. There is still a version of this that helps you without replacing you, and it’s worth knowing where that line sits.
People with a specific problem
You don’t want to learn AI. You want the paperwork to take less time, or the emails to stop piling up, or one specific recurring headache to become smaller. Good. That’s the right way in.
02 / The honest version
Five things nobody says out loud.
If you read nothing else here, read these. They will save you months.
01
The first try is always disappointing.
Everyone’s is. You ask a vague question, you get a vague answer, and you conclude the whole thing is overrated. The gap between a bad result and a genuinely useful one is usually about two more sentences of context — not a better tool, not a secret prompt.
02
It is confidently wrong on a regular basis.
It will state something false in exactly the same tone it states something true. This is the single most important thing to understand. Use it for things you can check, or things where being roughly right is fine. Do not use it as your only source for anything that matters.
03
You do not need to pick the “best” one.
People will argue endlessly about which model is superior. At the level of ordinary daily use, the differences are small and the arguments are mostly sport. Pick one, use it for a month, and ignore the leaderboards.
04
Talking to it normally works better than tricks.
The “secret prompts” industry is mostly theatre. Explaining what you want the way you’d explain it to a competent new assistant — what it’s for, who it’s for, what you’ve already tried — beats almost every template you can buy.
05
One good use beats thirty experiments.
The people who get real value from this did not learn everything. They found one recurring task, got it working properly, and let that one thing pay them back every week. Start with one. Genuinely, just one.
03 / Where to go
Pick the door that sounds like you.
“I have never really used this.”
Begin at the beginning. A short, ordered set of first steps that takes about twenty minutes and ends with one thing genuinely working.
Start here ↗“What is it actually good at?”
An honest map of where this helps, where it’s mediocre, and where using it is an actively bad idea. Organised by real life, not by feature.
See the map ↗“I’d rather someone just showed me.”
Sometimes an hour with a patient human beats a month of reading. I do a small number of one-to-one sessions for exactly this.
How sessions work ↗No catch
Everything written here is free.
There is no course, no funnel, no email sequence waiting for you. If the guides are all you ever need, that is a completely fine outcome and I’ll consider it a success.