
Start Here: A Plain-English Map to Understanding AI
New here? This is the front door — how AI works, how to use it, and how it affects you, organized into three paths so you can start exactly where you are.
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New here? This is the front door — how AI works, how to use it, and how it affects you, organized into three paths so you can start exactly where you are.

A randomized trial found AI users scored 17 points lower on comprehension after learning a new library — but the spread inside the AI group was even wider.

AI didn't take your reps. It made them optional — and skipping them is why you ship more and learn less.

Two developers fix the same bug with the same AI. Only one gets better. Here's the mechanism, and the one-sentence habit that fixes it.

Entry-level roles vanished while senior hiring held steady. One constraint explains both — and it changes what you should be optimising for.

AI made writing software cheap. The metric that decides your next level was never output.

Everyone blames the loss of productive struggle. The real loss is correction, and it's the one you can buy back.

The trigger lasted two minutes. The incident lasted nine hours. Here's the failure mode your postmortem template can't see.

Fifty years of learning research says the "review it carefully" habit is the condition that loses. Here are the sixty seconds that change it.