Today's teaching topic goes back to the foundation: the basics of AI.

What artificial intelligence actually is. The types that matter for your daily work. And the mental shift that turns AI from a novelty into a real productivity tool.

Here's what I keep seeing: people jump straight to prompting techniques and tool comparisons before they understand what's happening under the surface. That's like learning guitar solos before you know how to tune the instrument.

One thing I want you to think about today: Are you using AI as a consumer (type a prompt, accept the first answer, move on) or as a collaborator (iterate, push back, use it to stress test your own thinking)?

That single distinction is the biggest predictor of whether AI saves you time or just makes you faster at producing average work.

Drop your honest answer below. No judgment. Most of us started as consumers. The question is whether we stay there.