AI for Beginners
Phillip AlcockPlain-English AI for everyone else.
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The Blueprint vs. The Builder
Welcome! If you’ve been trying to work out this wacky world of artificial intelligence recently, you’ve probably heard a lot of buzzwords flying around. Two terms that pop up constantly are Markdown files and AI Agents.
Because they are of...
A quick way to explain “agents” to a non‑tech teacher
Imagine you have a super‑helpful student teacher in your classroom.
You can say, “Can you create a quiz from yesterday’s lesson, email it to the parents, and then put the marks into the gradebook?”
They don’t just answer your question a...
Holding Up a Mirror
Have you ever written an email, read it back to yourself, and thought, “Yikes, that sounds a little too grumpy”? So, you delete a few words, add a smiley face, and rewrite it before hitting send.
Believe it or not, Artificial Intelligence...
The “Expert” Trap
Why does telling an AI it is a “world-class expert” often result in bland, cliché-heavy “LLM slop” rather than actual high-level insight?
We will examine how persona prompting triggers statistically “safe” but generic training data. Then,...
The Orchestrator Pattern
How do you stop an AI from ignoring half your custom instructions when you hand it a complex, multi-step task?
The Approach
You stop dumping a massive wall of text into the prompt window and start treating the AI like a literal router. I...
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