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.

Author's pick for beginners

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
11 levelsvoicedminigames

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
11 modules37 lessons

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

GameText course
FormatYou play, watch and listenYou read at your own pace
Best forComplete beginnersPeople who like text & reference
InsideStory, minigames, a final bossModules, lessons, examples
Time~1–2 h in one sittingSelf-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.

11 modules37 lessons100% FREE · forever
claude

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.

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2026-09-12·3 min read

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.

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2026-09-12·3 min 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».

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2026-09-12·3 min 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.

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2026-09-11·3 min 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.

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AI guides & lifehacks

Practical guides, written to be understood

Plain-language explainers and AI lifehacks — the library behind the course.

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GitHub radar

Fresh GitHub finds

The repositories the internet is starring right now — picked by the numbers, explained for humans.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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EAEvgenii Arsentev

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.

Before you choose

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.

Ready to start?

Build your first real project with AI this week.

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