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Using AI properly, at the bench and at the desk.

Two short courses written for two brothers. Jamie's is about AI in an engineering workshop. Oliver's is about AI for school work and everyday life.

Each unit is a page you read in one sitting: what the idea is, a written example chat, the rule that applies, and a short check at the end. Nothing here needs you to sign up to an AI service.

Unit registerContents

Track J · AI in the workshop · Jamie
Unit	Title	Status
J-01	What an AI model is, and isn't, in a machine shop	Issued
J-02	Prompting from your own notes: a setup sheet in ten minutes	Issued
J-03	First-off and inspection templates	Planned
J-04	Maintenance and breakdown logs for the manual machines	Planned
J-05	Quoting from past job times	Planned
J-06	Customer emails that get answered	Planned
J-07	Scheduling the borers	Planned
J-08	A second opinion on G-code and CAM (proved on the machine)	Planned
J-09	ISO 9001-style procedures without the pain	Planned
J-10	Making the case to the boss: a pilot, then a new role	Planned

Track O · AI for school and life · Oliver
Unit	Title	Status
O-01	How AI chatbots actually work	Issued
O-02	Checking AI answers, and using AI to learn, not to cheat	Issued
O-03	Revising with AI: quizzing, explaining, planning	Planned
O-04	Privacy, photos and what you share	Planned
O-05	AI and wellbeing	Planned
O-06	AI in jobs and in adult life	Planned

Track J · Jamie

AI in the workshop

For a newly qualified machinist in an established engineering firm that does not use AI yet. It treats AI as one more tool on the bench: useful for some jobs, wrong for others, and never trusted without a check.

Where a chatbot can save time, and where it cannot help.
The data rule: customer drawings belong to the customer.
Turning an AI answer into something you have checked against the drawing and the machine.
Clearer written work: notes, reports and emails.

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Track O · Oliver

AI for school and life

For GCSE years. Everything is read on the page: the example chats are written out, so no AI account is needed. Any chatbot will do for the ideas; ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are named only as examples.

What a chatbot is doing, in plain words.
What the exam rules allow, and what they do not.
How to check an answer before you use it.

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How a unit works

Read the page
One idea per unit, in short sections with a diagram.
Study the example chat
A written conversation, with notes on what to spot in it.
Apply the rule
Data, checking and exam rules are boxed so they are easy to find again.
Take the check
A few questions with the reason behind each answer.