Made by Alexander Markin; last update: 17.06.2025
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- Here is all my knowledge on the use of AI
- If you find it too technical, see AI Intro page to start with the basics
- I don’t advocate for cheating, copyright violation, or AI acceleration
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AI Intro: main concepts
AI Models
Choose between the two:
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ChatGPT by OpenAI
Most versatile. Creates texts, images, and deep researches. Receives texts, files, voice, and video at input.
Models:
- 4o/4.1 for daily use-cases
- o4-mini for more complex queries
- o3 for longer and harder tasks and coding
Also can:
- Search web
- Make videos with Sora
- Have project-specific knowledge
I recommend ChatGPT if you need to choose one AI for all the purposes.
Pro price: $20/month
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Claude by Anthropic
A more niche and creative LLM. Creates texts and deep researches. Receives texts, files, and voice at input.
Models:
- Sonnet 3.7/4 for daily use-cases
- Opus 4 for more complex queries
- Opus 4 with Extended thinking for longer and harder tasks and coding
Also can:
- Write in a pre-set custom style
- Have project-specific knowledge
I use Claude for text-based and creative tasks.
Pro price: $20/month
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Note: there are more but they are not as good
Prompting
Only good prompting gets you good results
General Advice
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Worth including in a prompt
- Objective / goal / task
- Steps-by-step instructions
- Return format
- Writing style
- Constraints/rules/expectations
- Context
- Examples (positive and negative)
- Audience (”explain as if I was 5”)
- Role (”act as…”)
- “Temperature” (0-1 scale, where 1 is most random/creative behavior)
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Try asking for
- Variations (”Do this in 3 different ways”)
- Different formatting
- Recompletion of the task
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Explain rather than infer
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