Is everything that uses AI an agent?
Model, assistant, workflow and agent: what each one does and how to tell them apart.
Applied AI · One chapter at a time
Learning AI begins with better questions.
A short journey to distinguish concepts, design clearer instructions and decide where human judgment belongs. Each chapter ends with a question: consider your answer before opening the explanation.
These first chapters cover foundations already explored. The course will grow as new lessons are developed.
Autonomy is not an on/off switch
What makes an agent, and how to adjust its autonomy to the task.
AI needs to know what stays and what changes
Permanent instructions, memory, task, campaign and state, with a simple example.
A good prompt makes a decision reviewable
The structure of a useful prompt, a complete example and a way to handle uncertainty.
Read in order or share a direct link to a chapter. Examples are fictional so you can apply the reasoning to your own work.