A LITTLE MORE PERSPECTIVE
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What is a large language model?
How the system behind AI assistants learns and writes its answers.
What are AI agents? How they plan and use tools
How agents choose steps, use tools and where their limits lie.
How to start using AI at work
Start with one task, then measure the work left afterwards.
How AI image generators work
From a written brief to a picture, and where control is lost.
Open vs. closed AI models: what the difference means
What “open” really means, and how to choose between the two.
What AI benchmarks actually measure
What benchmark scores capture, and how to test models on your work.
How reasoning models work, and what changes
Why some models think before answering, and what it costs you.
Context windows explained: what fits and what gets lost
What fills a model's working space, and what gets overlooked.
What is RAG? Retrieval-augmented generation explained
How AI looks things up before answering, and where it breaks.
AI hallucinations explained: why plausible answers fail
Why models make confident errors, and the checks that catch them.
Build your first AI agent without code
Design one small, supervised agent, step by step.
AI agent vs. AI workflow: how to choose
The real difference is who decides the next step.
Build an ecommerce product-question agent
A supervised agent that answers shoppers from your own catalogue.
Build a research agent with source verification
An agent that drafts briefs in which every claim is sourced.
Build a SaaS onboarding investigation agent
A read-only agent that finds why new accounts stall.
Build a growth reporting agent
A weekly reporting agent whose every number traces to a query.
Build an invoice-exception investigation agent
An agent that investigates failed invoice matches, with people approving.
How to verify AI-generated research
A practical way to check AI citations before you rely on them.
AI for marketing: useful tasks and required checks
Where AI helps a marketing team, and the check each task needs.
AI for ecommerce: practical starting workflows
Five low-risk AI workflows a small online shop can start now.
How to keep characters consistent in AI video
A tool-neutral workflow for keeping characters the same across shots.
How AI video generators work
How video generators handle time, and why hands and physics fail.
Build an AI voiceover workflow with review
A reviewed process for synthetic narration you can stand behind.
The EU AI Act explained
Risk tiers, roles and deadlines in Europe's AI law.
How to spot AI-generated content: signals and limits
Why visual tells fail, and four origin checks that work better.
Content credentials explained: what provenance can show
What a signed provenance record can prove, and what it cannot.