Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Neuron Live. I'm Corey Knowles. This is Grant Harvey. And we're really excited you're here today. We see we had a bunch of people lined up ready before we got started. And we're really excited about today. This is a thing that
grant and i spend a lot of time with our head really really deep in the ai weeds like a lot of time probably an unhealthy amount of time but but with that said grant brought this idea up a couple of weeks ago that we needed to do this and i was like yeah we do
We wanted to make sure that while yes, we're covering what's happening and some of the flash gear tools, it's also just as important to make sure that we're helping to make AI more accessible to people who are just starting out, just learning. That's what we're here to do today. I'm going to drop a poll in in just a minute to get a feel for the general level of AI skill of everyone who's here.
Answer honestly, please. Yes. Yeah, answer honestly, it's okay. It is anonymous. Also, if anyone has questions they want to ask today that you feel like you might be embarrassed to ask, like you think it's dumb that I don't know this or something. First off, no dumb questions. Second off, feel free to email us at team at the neuron daily, and we'll address your question anonymously.
I want to make sure that if you have a question, you leave with it answered today. What kind of options do we want, Grant? Brand new.
Yeah, let's do brand new, never touch ChatGPT. Let's do I have used ChatGPT before, but I don't understand it. Let's do I've used apps before, but I want to level up my ability. And maybe let's do I want to learn the five-step framework. Let's do it that way.
Hang on one second.
You're in a good place.
I got through a couple first here already before we got to your list. I had brand new. I use it a little. I'm pretty comfortable.
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Chapter 2: How can AI be made more accessible for beginners?
And what they're doing is really the way to think of what Microsoft is doing with Copilot is that what they're doing is taking the flashy tools that people like Grant and I have been using for quite a while and packaging them up in a way that can be accessible to the masses.
Because the fact is we're still at a time in this world when most people, there's a great chart on this that shows it in little squares. Have you seen that, Grant? That shows like the power users, this one tiny square in the corner. People who use it some are this little half of this first strip. And it's kind of an effort to take it to the masses.
I would say also with Copilot, they're trying to make it usable inside the existing Microsoft suite. So they're trying to integrate it with everything else that they do, which is pretty complicated. So that's why it doesn't always work as well as the new stuff that's built, you know, agent native.
And also why their rollouts are a little slower because trying to work it into a... a platform that has 30-year-old, that's built on 30-year-old code. Yeah. You know, it comes with a number of DMs. But what I can tell you is, like, with Copilot added Cowork this last week to their Frontier program. So the way they roll these out for context is they start with, like,
a dozen people, 20 people, and they let them try it, see how they use it, and then they go back and reevaluate, move some things around. Then they put it into Frontier. Frontier is their beta program. You can request access to it. And that's where you get access to some of these other things as well.
So with Frontier, all of this stuff comes out there first, and it's meant to be a chance for them to deal with some of the headaches and problems before they push it out to the billions of people across the Microsoft interface. So it makes a lot of sense, but as a result, it winds up a little behind the times at the moment sometimes.
So let's... Yeah, we'll talk about that a bit. Let's pass over to Grant. Yeah, we'll talk about that. We'll get into it. I saw some other really cool use cases in here. People don't know what to subscribe to. There's some people who are researchers. Some people have Claude set up on their own Mac Mini. That's great. Perplexity subscription. That's a good question. We can answer that.
But before we get distracted, we're trying to focus on the very basics to start us off here. So I'm going to go ahead and share my screen and just walk through very briefly what we're going to cover in addition to all of the questions.
So yeah.
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Chapter 3: What are the five levels of AI proficiency?
And the first two are the better of the two for... all of the things we're going to cover next. Then you can iterate. So you ask a question. Then the important thing to remember is you're not going to get what you want the first time. So you iterate with it, which Corey showed us how to do. And then iterate on the question. And then you can search to find previous chats.
And then the other thing that I didn't mention in that message is Corey talked about this here, which is the model picker. And he talked about why you would want this. Instant is for just everyday chats. Thinking is if you want it to use a higher degree of intelligence and you're okay waiting for an answer.
And that could be anywhere from five seconds to a minute or two.
Yeah, right. It can take some time. And you'll know that that's turned on right here.
Yeah, and you've got an extended thinking option right there as well.
Is that the dropdown? Oh yeah, you can do standard and extended. If what you need for it is to give you the highest intelligence possible, then it's probably a good idea to just have extended thinking on all the time. That's what I do when I use Claude. And then there's other tools here, but we'll get into this slightly later as they're relevant.
But just remember that if you have this plus sign here, you can use these tools. And there's lots of different tools on here.
All right.
So now we're going to get into the second part of this. I'm going to stop sharing my screen for a second. So we were talking about whether or not if you're a total beginner, if you start by setting up a project or setting or learn how to prompt efficiently. Um, Corey, what's your reason for learning basic prompting etiquette?
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Chapter 4: What are the key considerations for setting up AI projects?
Task, contacts, and format. This could also be presented as a bullet point list. Any constraints that you have on the project and what it needs to look like. Do not forget that.
Yeah, it makes a big difference in the quality of what you get back.
And like Corey said... Sorry, Cory. No, you're good. And then like Cory said, context, it can be something you just add and upload right here. You can even paste. The nice thing about Claude is, for example, let me just copy. And in fact, you can do this. I give everyone permission to do this.
You can go to our website, copy all of this in, copy and paste it into a project that you start, and you can say like, help me set up my AI setup exactly like this project is set up, or exactly like this article says. And you can just do that. Yeah.
And as you get a little more in the weeds, like I'm doing things with like, that's one of my things with open claw that made me fall in love with it so much is that I'm taking like, If I see a research paper I like and it's something that can be, and I'll drop it in my open claw and say, hey, is this interesting? How could this benefit what we're doing?
And it'll come back with, we could do this, we could do that. Do you want me to implement that? And like we've had, there was one night, OpenAI dropped a research paper. Right now I can't even remember for the life of me what it was on, but like I was at a Mexican restaurant and I saw the paper and I was like, well, that sounds cool. So I dropped it in Telegram to my open claw at home.
And it's like, do you want me to do that? And before I finished dinner, that research paper that just dropped, what it was suggesting was implemented on my home computer.
Yeah. It's pretty sick. All right. So Deb in the chat said, can Plog create concepts in mind maps? What I said is make one. In this case, it has access to a plugin that I gave it. And we can talk about that when we talk about skills. And what it's Yeah, what it's going to do is it's going to create a mind map concept map based on my resume. So I've never read this resume.
I'm interested to see what happens. In fact, while it's doing that, let me go ahead and see. So here's the recommendation it gave me based on our blog post. You're inside a cloud project right now with custom instructions, reference documents and a structured workflow.
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Chapter 5: How can you automate tasks with AI tools?
That's level one. And then it gives me advice on what to do from there, which is cool. Now, how did I get Claude to do these to use Excalibur? Well, what I did was I went to this tab called Customize. And on Customize, you can connect connectors, which we weren't really covering.
By the way, did you notice Claude changed them to connectors recently?
Is that not funny? I think it's been connectors for a while.
Claude invented MCP, shared it with the world. ChatGPT used it, called it connectors. And now... Claude has changed theirs over two connectors. It's all still MCP, and it's actually the industry standard now, at least for the moment, but that's another story.
Now, the way you would do it if you wanted to add your own is you would come over here to Connectors, so Customize Connectors, and then you click this little plus button, and you hit Browse Connectors. And this will show you all of the publicly available connectors that you can use. And, you know, if you see an app that you already use, like, let's say you use Huggy Fate.
Well, that's a very specific one. Let's say you use Figma because you're a designer or you use monday.com because you, you know, that's your project management tool. Yeah. You can just hit a little plus sign here and that will add it to your account. And what that means is it'll have you log in.
And once you log in, Claude can always use the publicly available functions that Figma or monday.com give you access to, which as you can see here, Beehive, which is our newsletter platform, just updated their own tool here.
I have my Notion connected to ChatGPT and Claude. That's cool. I can from either tool ding the Notion board that runs the website I built.
Yeah, that's awesome. Love it.
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Chapter 6: What are the differences between skills and agents in AI?
I have looked at it today, Grant.
You'll be proud.
Thank you.
I opened it, and I've even tried to follow along.
here's what we've covered right the simplest formula we did a live example um we didn't really talk about this but context engineering is just exactly what i said so um in order for the ai to help you let's go back to our in order for the ai to help you with your job search manager and to actually save you time and not have you manually writing cover letters for every job
It needs to understand your resume. It needs connections. Maybe it needs to be connected to your LinkedIn, if that's possible.
Maybe it needs to be connected to other services that you use, like Gmail or things of that nature, so that you can pull in all of the context that needs to actually give you a good answer that's not generic, that's not just like what Google would give you, that actually helps you accomplish the task. and reduces hallucinations because it knows everything about you.
If I was just to go to a random chat and say, write me a resume, it'll write me a resume for some person it's never met.
A good prompt engineering course, by the way. I know we mentioned those a little bit earlier. We'll handle context engineering as well because it's, you know, getting the right context is a vital part of that. Yeah. A short course could be a handy thing. Speaking of which... Yeah. Yeah. Stay tuned. We might have a cool announcement in a few weeks for you.
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Chapter 7: How can you effectively use AI for job searches?
So Linda said, I upload your newsletter to Claude whenever you have new info about him. Generally, he will thank me or say he didn't know. I love that. I think that's great. I think the best way to read our newsletter, because there's so much information in it, is probably to just upload it to the AI and be like, how could this help me? Yeah.
Deb, I'd like to send your question here. So Deb Shiano asks, so whenever you access the skill, it will perform that specified skill with whatever you give it to access. Yes.
Yeah. Yeah. I'm trying to get the cover letter customizer into a good point because I think this will be a better skill to test.
The truth is they're also relatively good at recognizing I need to call that skill. Yeah. Yeah. Grant and I both still tell it to call the skill because two times out of 10, they don't, if you just assume it will. But normally, I just say something like, hey, call my blog article skill or whatever it is, and it knows.
So what's funny is, so basically, my chat is being very... like reasonable with what's requesting from me, what it needs from me before it can actually do this.
I hear you, Grant. That's my favorite response.
Basically, I was like, just make it up. This is for a demo. But it was asking for specific information it needed for me so it didn't hallucinate, which I actually really respect. I'm glad that it did that. Same.
That's a thing I didn't do a year ago. Stop and ask questions.
So what I'm about to do is I'm about to have it reverse engineer this chat where I wrestle with it. I try to get it to give me exactly what I want. What I want is I want it to give me the exact jobs that I am qualified for. And I wanted to write custom cover letters for each of those jobs. And I wanted to do that every time I start my day or whatever.
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