AI Education & Research
AI Education & Research is the gateway to three structured learning paths: AI Essentials for foundations, AI Deep Dive for stronger systems, and Expert Workflows for hands-on projects. Choose a roadmap based on your current experience; the child categories contain the indexable lesson libraries.
Use the roadmap for the recommended order, or choose a guide below for the problem you are solving now. Each article includes practical limits, verification steps, and links to authoritative sources where details may change.
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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/2026/08/EW-Step3-A-2-of-3-300x169.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/EW-Step3-A-1-of-3-300x171.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/EW-Step2-A-3-of-3-300x169.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/EW-Step2-A-2-of-3-300x169.png)
[Step 2-A-2/3] Making It Read the Page and Talk to AI (Reseller Edition)
make 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/EW-Step2-A-1-of-3-300x169.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/EW-Step1-A-4-of-4-300x200.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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![[Step 1-A-3/4] Chunking, Token Limits & Surviving Timeouts (Developer Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/EW-Step1-A-3-of-4-300x150.png)
[Step 1-A-3/4] Chunking, Token Limits & Surviving Timeouts (Developer Edition)
Learn how to chunk long PDF text for AI summarization, estimate token limits, prevent context-window errors, and survive API timeouts with retries and exponential backoff.
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![[Step 1-A-2/4] Extract Text From PDFs — Detect Scans and Encoding Problems (Developer Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/EW-Step1-A-2-of-4-300x200.png)
[Step 1-A-2/4] Extract Text From PDFs — Detect Scans and Encoding Problems (Developer Edition)
Learn how to extract text from PDFs with Python, detect scanned or garbled output, validate the result, and use OCR when a file has no searchable text layer.
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![[Step 1-A-1/4] Build an AI PDF Summarizer — Environment Setup & Your First API Call (Developer Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-20-2026-04_29_28-PM-300x200.png)
[Step 1-A-1/4] Build an AI PDF Summarizer — Environment Setup & Your First API Call (Developer Edition)
Build an AI PDF summarizer with Python: create a secure project, store your API key safely, test the connection and diagnose common errors step by step.
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The Expert Workflows Curriculum Roadmap: From Learner to Shipper (Level 3)
This is the master roadmap for Expert Workflows — the hands-on, project-based track that follows AI Essentials and AI Deep Dive.
Not sure where to begin? Compare the AI Essentials, AI Deep Dive, and Expert Workflows learning paths.