AI Guides

Master AI tools with step-by-step guides. From beginner to advanced.

Essential Guides

Google Gemini: The Complete Guide

Master Google Gemini in 2026 — Gemini 3.1 Pro with 1M context, deep Workspace integration, Nano Banana 2 image generation, and Deep Research with MCP.

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Text & ChatBeginnerFeatured

Claude: The Complete Guide to Anthropic's AI

The complete 2026 guide to Claude — Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5 and Fable 5.1, plus everything you need to know about Claude Code (terminal + desktop app), prompt engineering, and the API.

Text & ChatBeginnerFeatured

How to Use ChatGPT in 2026: A Beginner's Guide

Everything about ChatGPT in 2026 — GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna, the GPT-5.6 range, the new $8 Go tier, agentic computer use and custom GPTs, and how to get the most out of OpenAI's flagship.

CodeIntermediate

Claude Code

What Is “ultracode” Mode in Claude Code? Explained

Seen “ultracode” in Claude Code and wondered what “Ultra Code Mode” is? Here is how the setting works now that it is its own toggle: how to turn it on and off, what happens under the hood, what it costs, and when to leave it off.

CodeBeginner

GitHub Copilot

What Is an AI Credit? Cost, Conversion and Burn Rate

An AI credit is a prepaid unit of usage-based billing — in GitHub Copilot one credit is fixed at $0.01, drawn down by real token use. Convert credits to dollars, see what a balance actually buys on each model, and why vendors dropped flat-rate plans.

CodeIntermediate

Muse Spark

Muse Spark: The Complete Guide for Developers

How to actually use Meta's frontier model — Muse Code in the terminal, the Model API in your app, what the 1M-token context is good for, and how to decide whether the 15x contributor discount is one you are allowed to take.

CodeIntermediate

AI Coding Tools

Best AI Coding Tool: Copilot vs Cursor vs Claude vs Codex

Four agents, one decision. We score GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code and OpenAI Codex on quality (50%), price (30%) and speed (20%) — then show how the winner changes the moment you change the weights.

CodeIntermediate

Claude

How to Prompt Claude Opus 5: What to Change, and What to Delete

Anthropic published dedicated guidance for prompting Claude Opus 5, and most of the advice is subtractive. Verification instructions, self-check reminders and delegate-more nudges that helped on earlier models now cost tokens without improving results. This guide covers the API changes that return a 400, the six prompt edits that matter, why effort is the wrong lever for response length, and the exact wording Anthropic recommends.

ImageBeginner

Claude

Claude Design: The Complete Guide to Anthropic's Prompt-to-Design Tool

A complete guide to Claude Design — Anthropic Labs' prompt-to-design tool. How to get access, the describe-generate-refine-export workflow, the design-system feature that keeps output on-brand, what you can build, prompt tips, exports, and how it compares to Figma and Canva.

BusinessBeginner

Claude Cowork

What Is Claude Cowork? Anthropic’s Agentic Workspace

A plain-English guide to Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s agentic workspace: how it differs from chat (it reads, edits, and acts in your real files and apps), how plugins bundle skills, connectors, slash commands, and sub-agents into a role specialist, how a task runs with permission at every step, and who it is for.

CodeIntermediate

Computer Use

Computer-Use Agents: How AI Controls Your Screen

How computer-use AI agents work: the see-decide-act loop that lets an AI move the cursor, click, and type like a person, the two approaches (Anthropic Computer Use vs OpenAI Operator), what they are good for, and the safety limits to plan around.

VideoBeginner

Kling

Kling AI: The Complete Guide to 4K AI Video Generation

How to use Kling AI, the Kuaishou video model: what Kling 3.0 can do (native 4K, native audio, Motion Brush, storyboard), how it compares to Sora 2 and Veo 3.1, what it costs, and when to choose it for AI video.

BusinessBeginnerFeatured

NotebookLM

NotebookLM: Turn Your Sources Into Audio, Video, and More

How to use Google NotebookLM, the AI research tool that grounds its answers in your own sources: the three-panel workspace, the Studio outputs (Audio and Video Overviews, mind maps, quizzes), how to use it step by step, and what it is best for.

CodeIntermediate

RAG

RAG Explained: How to Build AI That Chats With Your Documents

A plain-English guide to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): how the chunk-embed-retrieve-generate pipeline grounds an LLM in your own documents, the stack (embeddings, vector databases, LangChain/LlamaIndex), the three settings that decide quality, and when agentic RAG or long context beat it.

AudioIntermediate

Voice AI

Voice AI Agents: How to Build an Assistant You Can Talk To

How to build a voice AI agent in 2026: the speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech loop (and speech-to-speech), why sub-800ms latency is everything, the platforms (Vapi, Retell, ElevenLabs, OpenAI Realtime), a four-step first build, and what makes an agent sound human.

BusinessBeginnerFeatured

AI Automation

AI Automation with n8n, Zapier, and Make: A 2026 Guide

How to put AI to work across your apps: what AI automation is, how Zapier, Make, and n8n differ, how a trigger-AI-action flow (and a full AI agent) actually works, a worked first build, and how to choose the right platform for your team.

Text & ChatIntermediateFeatured

Open-Source LLMs

Best Open-Source LLMs in 2026: The Models and How to Run Them

A plain-English map of the open-weight LLM landscape in 2026: the current leaders (GLM-5.2, DeepSeek V4, Qwen, Kimi K2.6, Llama 4 Scout), what "open weight" really means versus open source, the three ways to run an open model, and how to choose one for your task, hardware, and license.

Text & ChatIntermediate

DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4: The Complete Guide to the Open-Weight Frontier Model

How to use DeepSeek V4, the open-weight (MIT) mixture-of-experts model: the V4 Pro and V4 Flash lineup, the three ways to run it (chat, API, or self-hosted), what it costs, the OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible API, and when to pick it over the closed frontier labs.

Text & ChatBeginnerFeatured

Grok

Grok by xAI: The Complete Guide to Models, Features, and the API

Everything you need to use Grok, xAI’s assistant built into X: the model lineup (Grok 4.7, Grok 4.3 and grok-build), the three ways to access it, the real-time-X features that set it apart, and how to call the OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible API.

CodeBeginner

AI Agents

What Is Agentic AI? A Plain-English Guide to AI Agents

An AI agent is a system that uses an LLM to pursue a goal on its own — reasoning, calling tools, observing results, and looping until done. This plain-English guide explains agentic AI from scratch: how agents work, what they can do today, and how to get started.

CodeIntermediate

Robinhood

How to Connect Your AI Agent to Robinhood for Agentic Trading

A practical, step-by-step guide to Robinhood Agentic Trading: connect Claude, Claude Code, or ChatGPT to the Robinhood Trading MCP, fund a ring-fenced agentic wallet, set approval guardrails, and let your AI agent analyze and trade equities — safely.

CodeIntermediateFeatured

Claude Code

How to Use Claude Code Routines: Schedule an AI Agent to Run in the Cloud

A practical, illustrated walkthrough of Claude Code routines — saved prompts that run themselves in Anthropic’s cloud on a schedule, an API call, or a GitHub event. How to create one with /schedule or the web UI, write a prompt that behaves, pick a cadence, and worked examples you can copy.

CodeIntermediateFeatured

Claude

How to Use Claude Fable 5: Access, Costs, and When to Choose It

A practical guide to Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5: how to get access, call it from the API, decide between Fable 5 and Opus 4.8, manage the premium pricing, and work with its safety guardrails.

CodeIntermediate

Claude Code

Claude Code: A Guide to the Terminal-Native AI Coding Agent

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads your whole project, edits files, runs tests, and iterates from the terminal. A hands-on guide to installing it, how a session works, memory and customization, and where it runs.

CodeIntermediate

Ollama

Ollama: How to Run Open-Source LLMs Locally on Your Own Machine

Ollama is the free, open-source tool for running Llama, Mistral, Qwen and more directly on your computer — private, offline, and free. A hands-on guide to how it works, picking a model for your hardware, and calling it from your own code.

CodeIntermediate

MCP

MCP Explained: How to Connect Claude and Any AI to Your Tools, Data, and APIs

The Model Context Protocol is the open standard that lets AI apps plug into your tools and data — like a USB-C port for AI. A hands-on guide to the architecture, the three server primitives, and connecting (or building) your first MCP server.

CodeIntermediateFeatured

Claude

Agent Skills: What They Are and How to Build One

Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude loads on demand to specialize at a task. Here’s how they work, how to build one, and why they’ve become a cross-vendor open standard.

Text & ChatBeginnerFeatured

How to Work With AI Effectively: A Practical Guide to Prompts, Memory, and Token-Efficient Conversations

The gap between a mediocre AI answer and a great one usually comes down to how you drive the conversation, not which model you picked. This guide covers the four levers that matter most: how to phrase requests so the model can’t misread them, how to control its “memory,” when to start a fresh conversation, and how to get the best result while spending the fewest tokens.

CodeAdvancedFeatured

Claude API

How We Built Our First AI Agent: A Production Guide to Claude API Agents

A deep dive into the agent that writes our daily AI news — the loop, the prompt, the tools, the validation, the caching, and the five lessons that took us months to learn.

ImageAdvanced

ComfyUI

ComfyUI: The Node-Based Workflow That Power Users Actually Run

ComfyUI is the de-facto standard for serious Stable Diffusion and FLUX.2 work in 2026. This guide covers nodes, ControlNet, video workflows, custom nodes, and how to share reproducible pipelines.

VideoIntermediate

Runway

Runway Gen-4.5: The Production Standard for AI Video in 2026

Runway sits at #1 on the text-to-video Elo leaderboard and is the tool most ad agencies, studios, and music-video directors actually ship with. This guide covers Gen-4.5, Director Mode, Motion Brush, and the Runway API.

CodeBeginner

Lovable

Lovable: Building Full Apps Without Writing Code in 2026

Lovable reached 8M users and $206M ARR by late 2025 as the leading no-code AI app builder. This guide walks through what it generates, when to use it instead of v0/Cursor, and how to ship a real product.

CodeBeginner

v0

v0 by Vercel: Prompt-to-React UI With Real Components You Can Ship

v0 has become the dominant prompt-to-UI tool for React developers — generating shadcn/Tailwind components from natural language and shipping straight to Vercel. This guide covers v0 vs Cursor, prompting patterns, and the new v1 model.

VideoIntermediate

Google Veo

Google Veo 3.1: The Video Model Most Likely to Replace Sora

Veo 3.1 leads the 2026 text-to-video benchmarks with native 4K, synchronized audio, and lip-sync. With Sora's app shut down and API ending in September, this is the model serious creators are migrating to.

Text & ChatBeginner

Perplexity

Perplexity: The Answer Engine That Replaced Google Searches for AI Users

Perplexity hit ~45M monthly active users by mid-2026 and became the default AI search tool. This guide covers Pro features, Spaces, the Comet browser, and how to switch from Google for daily research.

CodeAdvanced

OpenClaw

OpenClaw: The Open-Source AI Agent That Lives on Your Machine

OpenClaw is the viral 2026 open-source personal AI agent — 250K+ GitHub stars in 60 days. It runs locally, talks through Telegram/Signal/Discord/WhatsApp, executes shell commands, and uses Claude or GPT under the hood.

BusinessBeginner

Notion AI

Notion AI in 2026: How to Use It, Features & Pricing

Notion AI in 2026: what it is, how to use it, and every feature — Q&A across your workspace, Enterprise Search, Agents, AI Meeting Notes — plus pricing and real workflows.

AudioBeginner

Suno

Suno: Creating Music with AI from Scratch

Suno v5.5 generates full songs from text — vocals, instruments, lyrics. Now with Voices (your singing voice), Custom Models (your style), and My Taste (passive personalization).

AudioBeginner

ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs: Creating Realistic AI Voices

ElevenLabs Eleven v3 in 2026 — 70+ languages, inline emotion tags, conversational dialogue API, Voice Cloning, and the Voices feature for capturing your own singing voice.

CodeIntermediate

Cursor

Cursor: The AI-Native IDE That Changes Development

Cursor 3 with Composer agent — the AI-native IDE that's reshaping development. Learn the new agent-first interface, Composer model, async subagents, Cursor SDK, and how to 10x your productivity.

CodeBeginner

GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot: The Complete Developer Guide

GitHub Copilot in 2026 — agent mode across VS Code and JetBrains, multi-model selection (Claude + Codex + Gemini), Next Edit Suggestions, and how to autonomously assign issues.

VideoIntermediate

Sora

Sora 2 Guide: How It Worked and What to Use Instead

OpenAI discontinued Sora on April 26, 2026 and removes the API on September 24; it is not inside ChatGPT. How Sora 2 worked — prompts, storyboards, image-to-video — kept as a reference, plus which video model to use instead.

ImageAdvanced

Stable Diffusion

Stable Diffusion: Local Installation and Usage

Run Stable Diffusion 3.5 and FLUX.2 locally for unlimited free image generation. Hardware requirements, ComfyUI vs Forge vs Invoke, and how to set up the most powerful models.

ImageIntermediate

Midjourney

Midjourney Guide: Creating Stunning AI Images

Master Midjourney V8 in 2026 — 5x faster generation, native 2K resolution, draft mode, omni reference, character consistency, and the techniques that produce gallery-quality results.