Lesson Learned in a Novice's First Steps in AI
Learning from scratch. Building is an organic and winding road
The last few days, I have been learning how to deploy AGI. (Artificial General Intelligence) I am not a coder, or I didn’t think I was. I now understand that my knowledge of HTML is part of coding knowledge, like a base starting point. I jumped into learning how to develop agents from an article I read on Medium that recommended using the platform Diffy, but soon I learned that I needed to start more fundamentally by installing Python on my Computer.
I asked Claude how to install Python, and Claude guided me every step of the way. When I encountered error messages, I posted them as a prompt, and Claude guided me through it, which often involved having to install another program, such as GIT, and software like Poetry.
Claude explained what I needed to do to solve it very efficiently!
The day before yesterday, I was going to set up integration with my online store. Claude gave me the entire plan for doing so. Each time I complete one function, I say, “That’s great!” …
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