Credentials, in plain sight
- PhD in Medical Science — earned through original doctoral research, not bought.
- Published researcher — peer-reviewed papers, plus DOI-registered technical reports on the economics of AI agents. See Research.
- AI transformation executive — running AI adoption in tech is my day job.
- Creator of ARSENTEV.AI — the free course on this site.
- Everything published here is written and reviewed by me.
The path, briefly
Research
Medical school, then years of original doctoral research → PhD. It taught me rigor and how to learn hard things fast.
Product
An accidental turn into product management; grew into a Chief Product Officer role in tech.
ChatGPT & vibe-coding
Then ChatGPT dropped — and I fell head-first into neural nets and building with AI. Turns out anyone can do this.
ARSENTEV.AI
Built this portal: AI guides and a free Claude Code course, so nobody has to pay a 'guru'.
Back to research
Now I measure what I run: published technical reports on what agentic AI actually costs, registered with DOIs and open data.
Why this site exists
I am a physician by training and I earned a PhD through original doctoral research — years of it. Then product management. And when ChatGPT came out, I fell head-first into neural nets — been hooked ever since. These days I run product at a tech company. Which is my polite way of saying: I genuinely do not need your money.
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.
I made this course because my blog inbox keeps filling up with people — often older folks — who got charged real money by 'gurus' for things you'll learn here in one evening: install Claude, open the terminal, say what you want. And the feed is full of bloggers selling the same air in a prettier package.
This course is 100% free. No upsells. No cross-sells. No 'premium tier' waiting at the end. There is simply nothing here to buy.