Never used AI? Start here

If you have never typed anything into an AI tool, this page is the whole beginning. It takes about fifteen minutes, it costs nothing, and by the end of it you will have used AI to do one real thing.

You do not need to understand how any of it works. Nobody who drives a car can rebuild an engine.

Step one: copy a prompt

A prompt is just what you type in. That is the entire concept. Here is one that works on the first try, and the parts in brackets are the bits you change.

Step two: paste it into a free tool

Open one of the free tools in a new tab, paste, press enter. You do not need a paid plan and you do not need to install anything. If it asks you to make an account, that is normal and free.

One rule, and it is the only safety rule on this page: do not paste real names, addresses, account numbers, or anything you would not put on a postcard. Every prompt we publish is written so you never have to.

Step three: change one thing and run it again

The first answer is rarely the best one, and that is not a failure — it is how the thing is meant to be used. Tell it what was wrong in plain words: “too complicated”, “we do not eat fish”, “make it shorter”. It will try again.

That back-and-forth is the entire skill. There is nothing after it.

Questions people ask at this point

Is it safe? As safe as any website, on the same condition: what you type in is what it knows. Keep the real details out and there is nothing to leak.

Does it cost anything? No. Everything on this site is written for the free tiers, and we say so plainly on the rare occasion a paid tool is genuinely worth it.

Am I too late? No. Most people have not started. The ones who have are mostly using it for work email.