Hello, and welcome to Day 1 of me trying to learn to work with AI. It’s something that I have been wanting to do for a few months, and today is the day. And when you’re a horrible procrastinator, why wouldn’t you pick some arbitrary date in the future, but it has arrived.

My goal is to use AI to get a bunch of ideas out of my head, and into the world as fast as possible. I’m going to call them projects, instead of businesses, because not everything I want to work on is strictly a business.

Earlier this year, I am on record as saying I think the progression of AI from the initial LLM ( Large Language Models ) we were using into the current Agentic models is as big as the arrival of the internet to the masses, and posed the question if we could go back in time to the beginning of the consumer internet, knowing what we do now, would we focus our time and energy on learning how to work with it. I certainly would, and by extension I’m then kind of obligated to try and learn about what AI can do for me.

So here’s the challenge : 30 days in September, 10 projects started, 2 hours minimum spent working daily with a total of 100 hours spent, $2,000 budget, $4,000 revenue goal.

The first project was always going to be a blog, so that I could document what I was doing, and share with anyone bored enough to care. I registered the domain artificialamateur.com, so that’s me, and signed up for the premium versions of both Claude ( $34/mth ) and OpenAI ( $30/mth ). I will use a third also at some point, largely to compare and run things through different settings to find errors etc. It will likely be Grok, since it is quite different, even though I am personally no Elon enjoyer.

When I sat down to start working on the actual blog though, I realised how much I don’t know, and how difficult it may be to convey the actual nuts and bolts of what I’m doing, down to the level of click this -> select that, and I decided to try screen recording what I’m doing, at least to see if it provides any value. It may not, and may be more confusing that just staring at a blank screen. This required a bit of extra set up, so I’ll tackle that tomorrow.

Cya