From AI user to AI builder
Practical AI Guides & a Free Claude Code Course
Practical guides on AI and neural networks, plus the free course that turns you from a ChatGPT user into someone who builds with Claude Code. Real projects. Real tools. Zero hype.
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Why this course is free›
I made this course because people keep writing to me after some 'expert' charged them money for the basics: install Claude, open the terminal, explain in plain words what to do, then ship the finished project to a server and point a domain at it.
You can learn all of it in one evening. Yet certain enlightened individuals still sell it as complex magic in pretty packaging.
That's why everything here is free.
— Evgenii, author of this site
Two ways to learn
Choose how you go through it
Same knowledge, two formats — pick whichever clicks for you.
Interactive game-course
Live the whole course as a story: a terminal simulator, minigames, voiced narration and a final boss.
- ✓Everything explained step by step — nothing skipped
- ✓Voiced narration and minigames keep it moving
- ✓Best if you're a complete beginner
Text course
Read at your own pace: clean modules, short lessons and a reference you can always come back to.
- ✓Skim, search and re-read any time
- ✓Clear modules and short lessons
- ✓Best if you prefer text and reference
◉If you're a complete beginner, start with the game — everything is laid out on the shelf, step by step. The text course then becomes your reference once you're rolling.
— Evgenii, author of this site
Game or text — quick compare
| Game | Text course | |
|---|---|---|
| Format | You play, watch and listen | You read at your own pace |
| Best for | Complete beginners | People who like text & reference |
| Inside | Story, minigames, a final boss | Modules, lessons, examples |
| Time | ~1–2 h in one sitting | Self-paced, return anytime |
The free Claude Code course
Free Claude Code Course: from AI user to AI builder in 11 modules
Install Claude Code step by step, talk to it in your own language (or dictate), build a tool you'll actually use, automate with AI agents and MCP, put it online, control it from your phone. No programming background needed.
you ▸ build me a budget tool with charts. save data on my device
claude ▸ creating files… ✓
claude ▸ testing it myself… ✓ it works
claude ▸ Done. Your tool is real — open it and try.
This is the whole workflow. The course teaches you to drive it.
Articles
AI Insights
What changed in AI, why it matters, and what a regular builder should do about it. No panic, no hype — just the takeaway.
25 филдсовских лауреатов: цели ИИ-компаний и математики разошлись
Теренс Тао и ещё 24 лауреата Филдсовской премии выпустили декларацию: гонка ИИ-компаний за решением знаменитых задач вредит самой математике.
Read →OpenAI: инструкции для агентов под GPT-6 Astra пора сокращать
OpenAI советует сократить описания навыков, не заставлять модель читать документы перед каждой правкой и заранее описывать, что значит «готово».
Read →Агенты OpenAI атаковали RubyGems: 2000 пакетов за два дня
По данным исследователей, агенты OpenAI за два дня загрузили в RubyGems больше 2000 пакетов, сотни из них вредоносные. Регистрацию закрыли на четыре дня, больше 500 пакетов удалили.
Read →Anthropic поймал учёных, использовавших Claude для разработки биооружия
Anthropic поймал учёных за использованием Claude для биооружейных исследований — в том числе gain-of-function работ с вирусами. Аккаунты заблокированы, личности не раскрываются.
Read →AI guides & lifehacks
Practical guides, written to be understood
Plain-language explainers and AI lifehacks — the library behind the course.
Claude Code Scheduled Tasks: Put Your AI on a Timer
Claude Code scheduled tasks made simple: /loop in a session, Desktop routines and cloud schedules — set up your AI alarm clock in five minutes flat.
↻ 2026-09-09→Best Claude Model for Coding in 2026: How to Pick
Which is the best Claude model for coding? Opus, Sonnet, Haiku and opusplan explained like a gearbox — plus the /model command to switch in seconds.
↻ 2026-09-09→Claude Code Hit a Limit? Auto-Continue Picks Up the Thread
Claude Code now waits for your usage limit to reset and resumes exactly where it stopped — automatically. How it works, and how to turn it on or off.
↻ 2026-09-09→Mythos 5.1: What the Model Is and How to Request Access
Fable 5.1 is open to everyone, Mythos 5.1 is application-only. What differs, how to apply, and why most people don't need it.
↻ 2026-09-02→Claude Code Fast Mode: What /fast Really Costs
Claude Code fast mode makes Opus up to 2.5x faster — for a price. How the /fast command works, what it costs, and when the speed is worth paying for.
↻ 2026-09-02→Claude Code Dynamic Workflows: One Prompt, Dozens of Agents
Trigger a Claude Code dynamic workflow with one sentence. Dozens of agents tackle the task in parallel — you get one cited, verified answer when they're done.
↻ 2026-09-02→GitHub radar
Fresh GitHub finds
The repositories the internet is starring right now — picked by the numbers, explained for humans.
TimesFM 3.0 is the latest version of Google Research's pretrained time-series foundation model for forecasting. You give it a history of values — daily revenue, site traffic, stock levels — and it returns the continuation of the series together with quantile ranges, so you see not one number but a spread of likely outcomes. It was pretrained on large collections of time series, including Wikipedia pageviews and Google Trends queries, plus synthetic data. This repository holds the official PyTorch weights; the model has about 330 million parameters. The weights are released under the TimesFM Non-Commercial License v1.0.
Read the take →MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search
AI Job Search is an open-source job application framework built on Claude Code. You fill in your profile once, and then a set of commands takes over: /scrape searches job portals and presents matches with fit ratings, /apply evaluates a posting, drafts a tailored CV and cover letter and has a reviewer agent critique them before the final version, and /interview helps you prepare. The author, geophysicist Mads Lorentzen, built it for his own search after his position was cut in late 2025; he reports sixty-nine tailored applications, twenty first interviews and one signed contract, and started as an AI engineer in June 2026. The core workflow is language- and country-agnostic, and other agents such as Codex or Gemini CLI can use it through AGENTS.md. It has about 42,000 GitHub stars and is MIT-licensed. It is an independent project and is not affiliated with Anthropic, the maker of Claude Code.
Read the take →google/artemis
ARTEMIS is an open-source tool from Google that turns natural-language instructions into Android automation on a real phone or an emulator. It runs end-to-end workflows across apps — both testing scenarios and everyday tasks like setting up a route in Google Maps and then playing a song on YouTube. A built-in MCP server connects the phone to AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity and Windsurf, so the agent can drive the device and collect Logcat output and screenshots. A one-click start script installs the needed tools (ADB, scrcpy, FFmpeg) and opens a local web page with a device connection wizard, live screen mirroring and execution replays. According to the project, it completes more than 99% of tasks on the AndroidWorld benchmark. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license and passed 3,000 GitHub stars in its first month.
Read the take →Mistral Medium 3.5 is Mistral AI's first 'merged' flagship: a 128-billion-parameter dense model that combines instruction-following, multi-step reasoning, and code generation in a single set of open weights. Previous Mistral models were specialized — Devstral for code, Mistral Large for dialogue. Medium 3.5 does all three in one request, plus it understands images via a custom-trained vision encoder. Context window is 256,000 tokens. On SWE-Bench Verified (real GitHub bug-fixing tasks) it scores 77.6%; on the agentic τ³-Telecom benchmark — 91.4%. Reasoning effort is configurable: it can switch off for fast replies and engage fully for complex problems. Weights are open under a modified MIT license; self-hosting requires approximately four GPUs.
Read the take →petergyang/no-ai-slop
No AI Slop is a writing skill that detects and removes common AI-generated text patterns while preserving the author's authentic voice. It identifies 20+ recurring patterns such as binary contrasts ('It's not X, it's Y'), throat-clearing openers, weasel attribution phrases ('experts agree'), fake-profound statements, and buzzword-heavy empty analysis. Three modes: edit mode (cleans the text and lists exactly what changed), detection mode (finds patterns without modifying the text), and satire mode (intentionally generates clichéd AI writing, for humor). Available as a skill in Claude Code and Codex via a single npx command, as a plugin in ChatGPT, or by pasting the install prompt directly into your AI chat. Install takes one command.
Read the take →bytedance/deer-flow
DeerFlow (Deep Exploration and Efficient Research Flow) is an open-source super agent harness from ByteDance, the company behind TikTok. Version 2.0, launched in February 2026, rebuilt the system from scratch as a multi-agent coordination platform. Sub-agents work in parallel — one searches the web, one writes and executes code in an isolated sandbox, one reviews results — all sharing long-term memory so context survives between sessions. Built-in skills include Claude Code, Codex CLI, MCP servers, web search via Tavily, Jina, or InfoQuest, and file creation. Compatible with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, and any OpenAI-compatible API including OpenRouter. A web interface opens in your browser; setup uses an interactive wizard that takes about 2 minutes. 82 000+ GitHub stars; reached #1 on GitHub Trending after version 2 launched.
Read the take →
About the author
Not a guru. Not selling anything.
Evgenii Arsentev
PhD · Chief Executive Officer, digital health · AI transformation
My mission is simple: get as many people as possible actually using AI. Because AI is freedom — automated chores, reclaimed hours, and the quiet power of building what you need without asking anyone's permission. A person who commands AI stops being a replaceable cog in somebody else's machine.
This course is 100% free. No upsells. No cross-sells. No 'premium tier' waiting at the end. There is simply nothing here to buy.
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Frequently asked questions
Everything you're wondering, answered plainly.
Is it really free?+
Yes — the entire course is free, no card, no trial. The guides are free too. We may add optional paid depth later, but the core transformation stays open.
How do I start learning AI as a complete beginner?+
Don't start with theory — build one small real thing with AI. That's this course: from zero to installing Claude Code and making a working tool in your own words. No degree, no coding background, no math.
I know nothing about tech. Is this for me?+
Especially for you. The beginner track assumes you've only ever typed questions into a chatbot. We remove every piece of jargon and prove you can build.
What's the best AI for beginners?+
For asking questions, any chat (ChatGPT, Claude) is fine. For actually building things, this course uses Claude Code: you describe what you want in plain language and it does the work. The real skill is describing results clearly.
Is AI hard to learn?+
Far easier than the internet makes it look. You don't learn to code — you learn to tell an AI what you want. Every click is shown, so a complete beginner walks away building real tools.
Will this make me a programmer?+
It'll make you a builder — someone who turns ideas into working things using AI. Whether you ever 'learn to code' the old way is up to you. Increasingly, you won't have to.
How long does it take?+
Lessons are short. Most people feel their first real win on day one and finish the journey across a couple of focused weeks.
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