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Under the Hood

Grüezi. Bonjour. Hello.

What's actually going on under the hood.

You've used AI a hundred times. This week you find out what's actually happening on the other side of the screen — and how to make it build your ideas, not just answer your questions.

Parat? ✦ 8 chapters · a live AI · a workshop

The course

The whole course. Start anywhere.

Read the top of a chapter and move on, or follow it all the way down. There's a 115-term dictionary underneath to get lost in.

Who's building today?

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Start here

What this is, and how to get the most out of it.

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What's actually happening

It feels like magic. It isn't. Here's the machine underneath.

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Driving it

How to get what you actually want out of it.

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Catching it lying

Truth, checking, and keeping your own judgment switched on.

4

The toolbox

Which tool for which job — chat, image, video, music, code.

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Making real things

The build loop, and shipping something real this week.

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Using it like a human

Attention, privacy, and not getting played.

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Where this is going

The big picture — and what makes us human.

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The Workshop

Build a real, working AI — give it a personality and a voice, talk to it, then plan the thing you'll actually make.

Do

Activities

Make real things — a song about your week, a site about your obsession, you as a legend.

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The Dictionary

All 115 terms, searchable. The bottomless layer.

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Prove it

A few quizzes — including a smart-and-humane gut-check. Find out what stuck.

Doing this with Peter? Here’s the week.

Day 1

The machine underneath

Start here · What's actually happening

Feed the live tokenizer a sentence and watch it get chopped into pieces.

Day 2

Driving it — and catching it out

Driving it · Catching it lying

Climb the prompt ladder, then make the AI lie on purpose and spot the tells.

Day 3

The toolbox, then building

The toolbox · Making real things

Watch a picture resolve out of static, then plan the thing you'll actually make.

Day 4

Using it like a human

Using it like a human · Prove it

Flip the sycophancy switch, then take the quizzes and see what stuck.

Day 5

The future — and the finale

Where this is going · The Workshop

Build your own AI helper: name it, give it a voice, talk to it out loud.

What it can do when you're good

None of this was made by hand.

Every one of these was made with the same tools you'll have your hands on. Not downloaded. Made.

An image, from one sentence
An image, from one sentence
A whole scene, invented
A whole scene, invented
A character, made to order
A character, made to order
A creature that never existed
A creature that never existed

Still curious?

Don't take my word for it. Ask it yourself.

This is a real AI, answering you live, right here. Fastest way to understand it? Talk to it yourself — then check whether it's actually right.

Your teachers this week

A whole cast. Not one of them real.

A wizard, an astronaut, a sushi chef, a Swiss kid in the mountains — every lesson has a different guide, and every single one is AI. Watch, then look for the tells.

Every face. Every voice. Made with the same tools you'll be using. Tap "how we made this" under any video to see exactly how.

The finale

At the end, you don't take a test. You build one.

The last chapter is a workshop: you build a working AI helper — name it, give it a personality and a real voice, talk to it out loud. Then it helps you plan the first thing you'll make for real.

Build your own AI

Parat?

That's "ready" in Swiss German. This week you stop being someone AI happens to — and start being someone who builds with it.

Start the course

Los geht's · C'est parti · Let's go