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Making AI Work for You

Like Duolingo, but for Making AI Work for You. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

26 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Pixel the Penguin
Making AI Work for You
with Pixel the Penguin
26
Levels
3
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Making AI Work for You

  • Personas act as a filter for vocabulary and tone
  • A specific role provides implicit context that a vague task lacks
  • A prompt needs a persona, a clear objective, and specific rules
  • Missing one of these ingredients leads to generic or irrelevant results
  • Constraints narrow the search space for the AI, leading to more tailored results
  • Vague prompts result in 'average' or generic responses
  • Identifying the three essential ingredients of a high-quality prompt
  • The necessity of constraints in preventing generic AI output
  • AI needs explicit 'buffer time' or it will stack tasks back-to-back
  • Hard deadlines and fixed appointments must be identified as non-negotiable
  • AI can match task complexity to peak energy windows
  • Categorizing tasks by 'mental load' helps the AI sequence them logically
  • Identifying the specific constraints needed to prevent an unrealistic AI-generated schedule
  • Applying AI's ability to prioritize tasks based on energy levels rather than just time
  • Fixed commitments must be established before flexible tasks can be slotted in
  • The AI needs the 'messy' data first before it can apply logic to resolve conflicts
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Making AI Work for You the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

The Magic Recipe for Prompts

If you tell the AI to act like a 'grumpy pirate,' what happens to the words it chooses?

Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.

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Where Making AI Work for You takes you

Stop just chatting and start creating. Learn how to use AI as a personal assistant to solve problems, spark ideas, and understand the magic behind the screen.

  1. 1

    Get AI to Do Your Work

    • Writing Better Instructions
    • Planning Your Week with a Bot
    • Turning Rough Notes into Emails
    • Brainstorming Creative Ideas
  2. 2

    Spotting Good and Bad Answers

    • When AI Makes Things Up
    • Checking for Bias in Results
    • How to Fact-Check a Bot
    • Giving Feedback to Improve Output
    • Protecting Your Private Info
    • Choosing the Right Tool for the Job
  3. 3

    How the Brain Behind the Screen Works

    • Predicting the Next Word
    • How Machines Learn from Patterns
    • The Future of Human and AI Teams

3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

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Explain Like I'm 5

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