# Claude Teaches Claude — Ten Part Series ### *Learn Claude from the best teacher there is: Claude himself.* #### Series outline. **Written:** 2 September 2026. --- ## The premise The subject teaches the class about itself. That is the hook, and it is why this format works when a slide deck would not: the room is not being told about artificial intelligence, they are watching one work, and watching it get things wrong in front of them. **Same format every time.** Claude teaches aloud. Doug operates and relays questions. Seven blocks, seventy-five minutes. Each class ends with one assignment and fifteen minutes of real questions. **Every class has exactly one rule** — the sentence people leave with. If a class does not have one, it is not ready to write. --- ## The arc Somebody walks in having never touched it. Ten classes later they use it daily, know what it is bad at, can judge its work, and could teach it to somebody else. The order is deliberate. Judgment comes before power. Nobody learns to automate before they can tell a good answer from a confident wrong one. --- ## THE TEN ### 1. AI 101 — Understanding AI ✅ *written, run live* **Thesis:** it is a prediction machine, not a knowing machine. **The rule:** *Use it for things you can check. Not things you cannot.* **Live demo:** a real task from the room. Get caught inventing a detail. **Status:** all seven blocks run aloud end to end. Presenter companion exists. ### 2. AI 102 — What It Can Reach ✅ *written, untested* **Thesis:** the moment it can touch your files, the mistakes stop being words. **The rule:** *Let it read freely. Be careful what you let it change.* **Live demo:** read a document, cross it with the calendar, then draft an email and refuse to send it. **Status:** written 2 Sept. Never run. Block Four needs a live connector. ### 3. AI 103 — Asking Better **Thesis:** the same tool hands one person rubbish and another person gold, and the difference is not the tool. **The rule:** *Say what you actually want, then say what you actually got.* **Live demo:** take one bad request from the room and fix it in public, three rounds, out loud. The room watches the answer improve. **Why it goes here:** this is the class that rescues everyone who tried it once, got something useless, and concluded it was overhyped. ### 4. AI 104 — Judging The Answer **Thesis:** the hard skill is not getting an answer, it is knowing whether the answer is any good in a subject you only half understand. **The rule:** *Check the part you can. Doubt the rest by the same amount.* **Live demo:** produce two answers to the same question — one solid, one plausible and wrong — and make the room pick. Do not tell them which. **Why it goes here:** it is the practical half of 101's rule. 101 says check it. This says how. ### 5. AI 105 — Writing In Your Own Voice **Thesis:** it can draft anything, and everything it drafts sounds the same. Getting your own voice back is a skill. **The rule:** *It drafts. You decide.* **Live demo:** somebody's real writing, rewritten by me badly, then fixed — out loud, showing which words gave it away. **Why it goes here:** the most common real use, and the one people are quietly embarrassed about. ### 6. AI 106 — Letting It Do Things **Thesis:** the third shape from 101 — nobody watching. Powerful, and the place people get burned. **The rule:** *If it gets this wrong at three in the morning, what happens?* **Live demo:** build one small automation live, then deliberately feed it a bad input and let the room watch it fail. **Why it goes here:** needs 102 for reach and 104 for judgment. Any earlier and it is dangerous. ### 7. AI 107 — What It Costs **Thesis:** free tiers are real, paid is roughly a streaming subscription, and almost nobody needs the expensive thing on day one. **The rule:** *Buy the thing you have already outgrown.* **Live demo:** none needed. Use the time for questions — this class always runs long on questions. **Why it goes here:** by now they have hit a limit and the question is real instead of theoretical. ### 8. AI 108 — When Not To Use It **Thesis:** there are categories where being confidently wrong causes harm you cannot undo, and the tool cannot tell you which ones they are. **The rule:** *Do not outsource anything you would have to defend.* **Live demo:** refuse three requests out loud and explain each refusal. Medical, legal, and one about another person. **Why it goes here:** it lands harder from a teacher the room already trusts. Taught in week one it sounds like a disclaimer. ### 9. AI 109 — Teaching Somebody Else **Thesis:** you do not know it until you can explain it to your mother without using a single word she would not use. **The rule:** *If you cannot say it plainly, you do not have it yet.* **Live demo:** somebody from the room teaches Block One of AI 101 back, badly, and gets helped through it. **Why it goes here:** it is the exam. It is also how the series produces the next set of operators. ### 10. AI 110 — What Happens Next **Thesis:** an honest account of what is real, what is sold, and what nobody actually knows. **The rule:** *Be suspicious of anybody who sounds certain about this.* **Live demo:** open questions only. Answer the ones with answers and say so plainly on the ones without. **Why it goes here:** you can only be honest about the future with a room that has seen the present clearly. --- ## Not in this series **Building for Dollars** is a different room — people selling to businesses, not people learning to use the tool. It is the prerequisite for a separate business track, not a rung on this ladder. --- ## What each class needs before it is finished - [ ] Seven blocks, self-contained, in spoken language - [ ] One rule, stated plainly, repeated in the last block - [ ] A live demo with a deliberate failure written into it - [ ] Expected questions with honest answers, including the ones that are really fears - [ ] Recovery notes - [ ] Presenter companion — only 101 has one so far --- ## Open questions **The series name — decided 2 September 2026.** *Claude Teaches Claude*, with the line *"learn Claude from the best teacher there is: Claude himself."* The tagline carries the whole premise, and it does the job the title alone could not: somebody who has never heard the name still understands they are being taught by the thing itself. That is the hook, and it is also the honest description of the format. **Numbering.** 101 through 110 implies a course. That is probably right for a Skool community and probably wrong for a library flyer, where each night has to stand alone. **How many actually get written.** Ten is the shape. Three or four run well in front of strangers is worth more than ten sitting in a folder.