AI guides and practical learning paths
Browse 34 source-checked guides covering AI foundations, advanced workflows, and hands-on projects. New readers can follow a roadmap in order; experienced readers can choose a specific problem below.
Start with the foundations
Learn the vocabulary, limits, tool-selection habits, prompting methods, and verification checks every AI user needs.
Build stronger AI systems
Move from isolated prompts to grounded files, custom assistants, image and video workflows, agents, automation, and a personal AI stack.
Ship a working prototype
Follow project-based tutorials for PDF summarisation, browser extensions, debugging, credential safety, and responsible deployment.
Latest guides
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![[Step 5-A-2/3] The Human-Edit Layer That Actually Matters (Marketer Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/expert-1032-human-edit.png)
[Step 5-A-2/3] The Human-Edit Layer That Actually Matters (Marketer Edition)
📌 Expert Workflows · Step 5: AI Draft + Human Edit · Edition A (Marketer) · Part 2 of 3 🎯 Where This Fits You have a pipeline and…
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![[Step 5-A-1/3] The Pipeline, Not the Prompt — How to Actually Produce Content With AI (Marketer Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/expert-1030-pipeline.png)
[Step 5-A-1/3] The Pipeline, Not the Prompt — How to Actually Produce Content With AI (Marketer Edition)
📌 Expert Workflows · Step 5: AI Draft + Human Edit · Edition A (Marketer) · Part 1 of 3 What you will make: a source-backed brief, a reusable…
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![[Step 4-A-3/3] Keeping It Awake — The Free-Tier Sleep Problem and What to Do About It (Office Worker Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/expert-1027-sleep.png)
[Step 4-A-3/3] Keeping It Awake — The Free-Tier Sleep Problem and What to Do About It (Office Worker Edition)
📌 Expert Workflows · Step 4: Cloud Deployment and Its Limits · Edition A (Office Worker) · Part 3 of 3 What was tested: the standalone HTTP diagnostic…
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![[Step 4-A-2/3] Secrets, Environment Variables, and the Bot That Finally Runs (Office Worker Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/expert-1024-secrets.png)
[Step 4-A-2/3] Secrets, Environment Variables, and the Bot That Finally Runs (Office Worker Edition)
📌 Expert Workflows · Step 4: Cloud Deployment and Its Limits · Edition A (Office Worker) · Part 2 of 3 Scope: This guide helps you distinguish missing…
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![[Step 4-A-1/3] Getting Your Bot Off Your Laptop — Free Cloud Hosting, Explained (Office Worker Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/expert-957-hosting.png)
[Step 4-A-1/3] Getting Your Bot Off Your Laptop — Free Cloud Hosting, Explained (Office Worker Edition)
📌 Expert Workflows · Step 4: Deploy Your AI App for Free · Edition A (Office Worker) · Part 1 of 3 Review date: 12 September 2026. This lesson…
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![[Step 3-A-3/3] Keeping It Running — Errors, Limits, and the Laptop Problem (Office Worker Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/expert-948-errors.png)
[Step 3-A-3/3] Keeping It Running — Errors, Limits, and the Laptop Problem (Office Worker Edition)
📌 Expert Workflows · Step 3: AI Telegram Bot · Edition A (Office Worker) · Part 3 of 3 — final ⚙️ How to read this tutorial. This is a hands-on, error-first guide:…
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![[Step 3-A-2/3] Giving Your Bot a Brain — And Keeping It in Its Lane (Office Worker Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/expert-903-scope.png)
[Step 3-A-2/3] Giving Your Bot a Brain — And Keeping It in Its Lane (Office Worker Edition)
Add an AI provider to a Telegram bot with scoped commands, asynchronous requests, privacy-aware testing, input and output limits, refusal boundaries, and safer failure handling.
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![[Step 3-A-1/3] Your First Telegram Bot That Actually Answers — Office Worker Edition](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/expert-900-bot.png)
[Step 3-A-1/3] Your First Telegram Bot That Actually Answers — Office Worker Edition
Build a first Telegram bot with BotFather, Python polling, token-safe configuration, private-chat testing, group privacy guidance, and practical troubleshooting for duplicate processes.
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![[Step 2-A-3/3] Making It Yours — Icons, Task Buttons, and a Tool You’ll Actually Use (Reseller Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/expert-808-customize.png)
[Step 2-A-3/3] Making It Yours — Icons, Task Buttons, and a Tool You’ll Actually Use (Reseller Edition)
Customize a Chrome extension with branded icons, three reseller task buttons, persistent results, debugging guidance, and realistic API-key security limits.
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![[Step 2-A-2/3] Making It Read the Page and Talk to AI (Reseller Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/expert-753-page.png)
[Step 2-A-2/3] Making It Read the Page and Talk to AI (Reseller Edition)
making your AI requests from the service worker, not from code injected into the web page.
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![[Step 2-A-1/3] Your First Chrome Extension That Actually Loads — For Your Side Hustle (Reseller Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/expert-720-extension.png)
[Step 2-A-1/3] Your First Chrome Extension That Actually Loads — For Your Side Hustle (Reseller Edition)
📌Expert Workflows · Step 2: AI Chrome Extension · Edition A (Reseller) · Part 1 of 3 🎯 What You’re Actually Building Here InStep 1some of us built…
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![[Step 1-A-4/4] Structured JSON Output & Shipping the Tool (Developer Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/expert-425-json.png)
[Step 1-A-4/4] Structured JSON Output & Shipping the Tool (Developer Edition)
Learn how to turn AI PDF summaries into reliable structured JSON, recover malformed model output, validate fields, and ship the workflow as a Python CLI.
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