Although I’ve been using ChatGPT since the early days, I hadn’t spent much time exploring the broader AI space—until recently. Our organization has started taking it seriously, forming several committees to examine it from all angles.

That shift pushed me to level up. I went from casual use to deep study, consuming as much as I could and spending many hours trying to make sense of it all. It was a major investment of time and attention. Once I began to absorb things, I felt I wanted to share my thoughts with those who are standing where I once was.

As a developer, I found myself more excited than others on the committee. Even though I don’t code full-time anymore, the possibilities I saw excited me. I’ve only dabbled in agentic tools like Gemini CLI so far, but I plan to go further. For the time being, I'm swamped in other work, but I plan to return to AI work as time opens up.

I don’t know where you are in your own AI journey. This course is for people who use ChatGPT regularly but haven’t gone much further—those who treat it as a better Google, but haven’t yet unlocked its potential. It’s general in scope, grounded in ChatGPT, but really about AI more broadly.

This is the kind of thinking I was lucky enough to do as part of our AI think group. I hope it’s useful to someone who’s just starting to see what’s possible.

This is shared with my employer's consent.