Happy Friday everybody!
Most people use AI the same way every day.
Open ChatGPT. Type something vague. Get a mediocre answer. Close it.
That's roughly 10% of what these tools can actually do.
The problem isn't the AI.
It's the way most of us use it.
So this Friday, three free things you can do this weekend to get more out of AI. All free.
HubSpot's 100+ ChatGPT Prompts
The fastest fix for most people is just better prompts.
Same tool. Completely different output.
HubSpot put together a free guide with 100+ prompts you can copy, paste, and use immediately, emails, brainstorming, summarising, research, daily tasks.
Just a download. No trial. No upgrade pitch.
Claude Projects
Even with great prompts, you still type your context every single time.
"I'm a marketing manager working at…" "Here's my company background…" "Here's the situation…"
Over and over.
Projects fix this. You set up a workspace once, custom instructions plus any documents you want Claude to remember. Every chat inside that Project starts with all of it already loaded.
A few real ways people use them:
Job hunting - upload your CV and a list of target companies. Cover letters, interview prep, outreach messages — all tailored, without re-explaining your background every chat.
Big buying decisions - one Reddit user soundproofing his apartment dumped in articles, Reddit threads, and details about his room. Now Claude is his sounding board for every product question.
Writing in your own voice - upload 5–10 of your past posts or emails. Claude picks up your tone and drafts new stuff that actually sounds like you.
Studying - upload a textbook PDF or your class notes. Use Claude as a tutor that questions you instead of just spitting out answers.
Free for all Claude users (up to 5 Projects on the free plan).
BTW, If you like Projects, look into Claude Skills next, same free plan, more advanced. Reusable instruction sets that kick in automatically.
Andrej Karpathy's "How I Use LLMs"
Ok this one isn’t a tool, it’s a video, but well worth watching.
If you only do one of these, do this one.
Karpathy was a founding member of OpenAI and ran AI at Tesla. He posted a 2-hour, 11-minute video on YouTube called How I Use LLMs.
It's exactly what it sounds like.
Him, screen-sharing, walking through how he actually uses ChatGPT and Claude in his real life, coding, research, voice mode, image generation, the whole stack.
Most "how to use AI" content is generic. This is one of the people who built the field showing you his actual workflow.
I hope you all have a great weekend!
Catch you next week,
Max