AI Guides

AI guides.

Short, practical guides to getting genuinely useful results out of AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity — no hype, no jargon.

AI tools are only as good as the way you use them. These guides cover the handful of habits that make the biggest difference: how to write prompts that get sharp answers, which assistant fits which job, how to catch the confident-but-wrong answers, and how to get started if you're brand new. Every guide is written by hand and free to read. Looking for ready-to-paste prompts instead? Browse the prompt packs.
How to write better AI prompts →
Context, examples & format
Which AI should you use? →
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini vs Perplexity
Fact-check AI answers →
Spot hallucinations & verify claims
AI for beginners →
Start using chatbots well
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Which tools actually help you ship
AI resume guide →
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Where to start

If you have barely used a chatbot, start with AI for beginners — it assumes nothing and walks through what these tools are, how to open one, and what they are genuinely good at. If you already use ChatGPT or Claude most days but the answers feel generic, skip straight to how to write better AI prompts; that is where the biggest jump in quality comes from. If you are choosing between assistants, which AI should you use? compares them on what each is actually best at rather than on benchmark scores.

The one habit worth building first

Almost every complaint about AI output — it is bland, it missed the point, it made something up — traces back to the prompt rather than the model. A prompt is a brief, not a search query. Tell the assistant who to be, give it the context and the raw material, say exactly what you want done, and name the format you want back. Those four ingredients turn a vague request into a usable answer, and they work identically in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity.

Trust, but verify

These tools generate plausible text, which is not the same as true text. They can invent statistics, citations and quotes with complete confidence, and they are most likely to do it on recent events, niche topics and anything involving specific numbers. Before you rely on an AI answer for something that matters, check it — how to fact-check AI answers covers the tells that give a fabrication away and a quick routine for verifying claims against primary sources.

Guides and prompts work together

The guides explain the technique; the prompt packs give you the finished article. Once a guide clicks, grab a ready-made prompt for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity, tap Copy, and fill in the bracketed blanks. Everything here is free, needs no account, and runs in your browser.