Claude Clue #27: How to learn to use AI
Training for building things with AI seems questionable to me, I prefer to be more hands-on! But there are still lots of things to learn from!
Honestly, I don't think you can be "trained" on AI. You learn it by dragging it into your actual work and watching what sticks, what breaks, and what saves you an hour (or takes an hour extra). I know this because I teach it. In my workshops, I spend most of the time showing folks how I actually work, then handing it over and letting them try in their own setup. The moment it clicks is never when I explain something! It's when they see it run in their own environment.
So why point anyone at a course at all? Because courses are useful for (at least) two things: what these tools can actually do, and what counts as acceptable use. The best place to learn both is straight from the companies building the models.
Anthropic has its academy, OpenAI has its own, and Google has a learning center.
I tend to treat them like a map, not a manual. Try taking one and then see if you can use that new skill in your own work!
Claude helped write this. It has, ironically, never taken a course.
HT: Tim "Roscoe" Rawson