Single ideas. Each one is something most people using AI have never been told. The order below is the suggested one, not a requirement. Read the pages this person needs, one at a time, and on each say where they stand first. If they are in a chat app, say which parts don't apply and what they would have in the code version.
- Which model to use
- The part of the conversation you don't see
- Where it runs, and what it may do
- What to ask for, and what to enforce
- What happens if you lose it
- What the provider keeps
- The context window, and how to manage it
- Memory: what the AI already knows about you
The thread running through all eight: what comes out of an AI is decided by the model, the context it was given, and nothing else. Every page here is about one of those two things.
When the person has what they need from here, the link to Intermediate opens the patterns.