Case & CodeA FIELD GUIDE TO AI
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Learn through useful work.

Choose a work product. Follow a concrete method, inspect an example, and check your result. These exercises use public or fictional material.

Choose a task

Build a chronology that survives checking

Extract events, preserve conflicting dates, and audit coverage.

3 min reading · Practical

Turn a transcript into useful examination preparation

Preserve questions, answers, qualifications, and source locations.

3 min reading · Practical

Research with AI without outsourcing the authority check

Separate finding candidates from verifying propositions.

3 min reading · Practical

Build a drafting workflow around the record

Move from issues to an outline, then draft and verify one section.

4 min reading · Practical

Design a review table before generating it

Make each column answer one question you can check.

3 min reading · Practical

Turn dictation into a useful draft

Preserve your meaning while cleaning up spoken notes.

3 min reading · Practical

Your first useful Python script: a document inventory

Read a practice folder and print a CSV without changing its files.

3 min reading · Practical

Build your first agent around a document inventory

Define a small job, limited permissions, and an observable result.

3 min reading · Practical

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