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Practical guides to working with artificial intelligence. Step by step, from your first task to more advanced systems.
Understanding AI in practical work
Published articles for business owners, leaders and professionals who want to understand the technology well enough to use it and make better decisions — without having to become engineers.
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Start the series here: nine steps from an idea to a working system. Each step will get its own article.

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How to build with AI: from an idea to a working system
An idea, a normal computer and an AI that can work on it: these are the steps I suggest to start building, organise the work and stay in control.
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Save what works: Git for working with AI without worrying about breaking things
Part two of How to build with AI: a folder with a memory, saved versions to return to and a simple way back when AI breaks something.

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Install AI on your computer and give it permission to code
First step in the How to build with AI series: install Codex or Claude Code, choose a folder and decide what your new programmer can do.

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If you are going to build with AI, start now: you are being subsidised without knowing it
I have spent months building several systems and applications with artificial intelligence at the same time. These are demanding projects, aimed at getting capabilities and results I cannot find on the market. So I have decided to build them myself.

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Your AI needs more than a chat: the connections that turn it into a working tool
Memory, access to a computer, email, a calendar, files and a convenient way to talk to it. Productivity comes when AI can work with what you need, without you having to copy everything from one window to another.














