How do you learn to use AI in your workflow?
AI has the potential to boost your productivity 10x, even 100x. But only if you know how to actually use it.
That’s why learning how to integrate it into your daily workflow isn’t just useful. It’s essential. It’s quickly becoming one of the most valuable meta-skills in any role. No matter if you're a copywriter, a dev or a marketer.
So here’s the question: how do you actually learn to use AI well?
Here’s what’s been working for me:
1/ I block out at least 5 hours a week just for AI exploration: 2 hours during the weekdays, 3 on the weekend. Testing new tools, building small things.
2/ I watch YouTube breakdowns or scroll through Twitter threads that show how others are using a specific tool.
3/ I even use ChatGPT or Perplexity to teach me how to use other tools - asking for use cases, examples, or setup walkthroughs.
It’s a habit now.
Curious: what are your methods for learning AI and making it part of your workflow?👇
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Great tips. To be honest, I do many things manually and feel AI illiterate. :D
Form of education for myself is ProductHunt itself, because I can test new products from the front line, so I take this platform as a "studying point". :)
@busmark_w_nika lol
Why? Why? Why?
@byalexai I dunno, I feel sometimes like a boomer :DD
@busmark_w_nika xDDD non-native AI people=boomers
Like this!!!
ChatGPT o3, YouTube, Claude, Reddit and even books 😅
@ideaxton Cool.
Can you share your workflow for learning? I mean the exact process.
@byalexai I don't sit down and study materials in a focused way. It doesn't work for me. It's impossible to remember everything. That's why I absorb information while working on a project.
Four years ago, I had no idea what AI, automation, API keys, and other fancy words meant. But I worked in a blogger's team that created online courses and chatbots in Telegram for these courses. Over time, I got into how they worked. I watched tutorials on YouTube and learned about chatbots in Telegram that way. Later, I got acquainted with Make.com and Zapier. YouTube videos helped me with that too.
When it came time to create my own projects, ChatGPT helped me the most, but specifically the o3 model, not 4o. I spent hours working with it. And here I made many discoveries in terms of understanding how various things work in the field of programming, AI, and development.
Let's summarize. YouTube helps me understand things visually. ChatGPT helps me understand things that aren't on YouTube. Claude sometimes does a better job with code and explaining how things work. Reddit is a great tool for finding ways to fix errors in a project.