You chat with AI every day. But is there more to it? This episode is the map.
Ollie left the clever stuff for later and went back to basics: what Claude actually is, how it's built, and the one thing that turns a rubbish answer into a great one. No jargon, nothing assumed — the ground floor for getting properly good with AI, whether you're on Claude, Copilot, Gemini or ChatGPT.
In this episode:
- Where work happens has shifted. Excel → Jira → Notion → Claude. The tool you reach for first is changing for every role — analyst, recruiter, finance lead.
- The three places to work in Claude: Chat to ask, Cowork to do, Code to build — what each is good at, where each falls down, and the path most people travel between them.
- How an AI interface is actually put together — prompts, custom instructions, skills and threads, explained plainly.
- The big idea: the best AI is the smallest AI. Targeted context beats more context every time. Ask a librarian for "a good book" and who knows what you'll get; ask for the new Dan Brown and you're sorted. AI's no different.
- The four levels, and how to set them up — raw chat → custom instructions → skills → your context. By level two you've more than doubled the value of every answer. By level four it feels like an assistant with ten years' experience and a perfect memory.
Next time: The Temple of Claude — a love story. How Ollie fell for it, and the times they nearly broke up.
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