I just want to understand what all this AI stuff means
The shortest honest route from 'everyone is talking about this' to 'I can tell a real claim from a demo'. Two evenings, no hardware, no spending.
You end with: You can read an AI announcement and say what it would take to believe it.
Explore
Start with the arithmetic and the stopwatch, because the arguments in public have neither.
- The economics of automation — Why one job gets automated and the near-identical one next to it does not. (3 lessons, 65 min)
- What humanoid robots are actually for — Count the cuts in the demo video, then count the contacts in your own hands. Two numbers, one honest picture. (3 lessons, 70 min)
Build
One small thing built and then broken teaches more about the limits than any amount of reading.
- Coffee break: the summariser you can prove is wrong — Twenty minutes to build it, twenty more to find out where it fails. The second half is the point. (2 lessons, 40 min)
- The eval you actually need — Stop reading leaderboards. Build the harness that measures your task, on your inputs. (4 lessons, 8 min)