Peter Niu
Learning in Public

How I AI

Interactive workshop to understand what AI tools actually do by building them.

Completed

AI for Normies · Session 0
AI Glossary
A running list of terms I encounter.
AI for Normies · Session 1
Agents 101 for Normies
An interactive, self-paced presentation that teaches non-technical people how AI agents actually work.

Roadmap

Sessions 2–7 go under the hood to unpack the internal components that turn toys into productivity tools. Sessions 8–10 put them to use on real business problems.

  1. 2
    How I Give AI My Tools
    MCP authoring from scratch
    Up next
  2. 3
    How I Built My AI's Memory
    Vector search, embeddings, entity graphs
    Planned
  3. 4
    How I Built a Searchable Research Library
    RAG done right — chunking, reranking, parent expansion
    Planned
  4. 5
    How I Test Whether AI Matches My Judgment
    Evals as discipline — golden sets, scorer rubrics, F1
    Planned
  5. 6
    How I Make AI Work Reproducible
    Constrained agents, artifact locking, validator gates
    Planned
  6. 7
    How I Watch What My AI Is Doing
    Observability — transcripts, tracing, dashboards
    Planned
  7. 8
    How I Generate Proposals You'd Actually Send
    Reliable, deterministic AI output for high-stakes business docs
    Planned
  8. 9
    How I Automate Sales Workflows
    CRM integration, lead scoring, outreach drafting
    Planned
  9. 10
    How I Draft Contracts You Can Trust
    Clause libraries, compliance checks, human-in-the-loop review
    Planned