Education

Most people interested in building software with AI fall into one of two traps: they treat the assistant as an oracle and lose all judgment, or they treat it as a fancy autocomplete and never use its real strength. Collaborative development is a different practice, with its own habits and shape. It can be taught.

Sessions are one-on-one, project-based, and conducted by screenshare. You bring a goal — a tool you want, a workflow you want to streamline, a thing you've always wished existed — and you leave with both the thing built and the practice that built it. The point is not the finished product; the point is that on the next day, the next week, the next year, you can sit down at your own keyboard with an AI assistant and continue.

Students have ranged from people who had never written a line of code to working IT professionals who needed to learn how to apply AI to their own domains. A recent student, an IT director at a mid-sized company, came in wanting to build a port scanner. Within a week of his first session he had a working prototype running on his own machine, built by him in conversation with his own AI assistant. The week before that, he had never built software.

The Gist Mill's own products — Savi, The Clipboard — are built using the same practice. The teaching is the foundation; the products are the evidence that the practice works.

Currently accepting inquiries. Engagement format and pricing are sized to the student and the scope; reach out to start a conversation.