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26 things every AI guru says you need to learn this month

Every week somebody posts "learn this in 30 minutes." Here is the whole pile in one place. Each one is real and useful. Learning all of them is a second job.

1. Claude Projects saved context for a body of work
2. Claude Skills reusable know-how Claude loads on demand
3. Claude Code an AI that writes and runs software
4. Subagents AIs handing work to other AIs
5. Claude Cowork Claude doing multi-step work in the cloud
6. Claude Duet a Claude that messages you first
7. Connectors (MCP) plugging AI into the apps you use
8. Browser agents AI that clicks around websites for you
9. Model routing which model for which job, and why it matters
10. Prompt caching not paying twice for the same context
11. ChatGPT Dots OpenAI agents that chase a goal
12. Custom GPTs prebuilt ChatGPT helpers
13. Codex OpenAI's coding agent
14. Grok bots xAI agents that work around the clock
15. Grok Imagine AI images and video
16. Voice agents AI that makes and takes phone calls
17. AI avatars video of "you" without filming
18. Automation tools n8n, Zapier and Make wiring apps together
19. RAG getting AI to read your own documents
20. Evals testing whether the AI is actually right
21. Guardrails what the AI is never allowed to do
22. API keys and spend caps keeping the bill from exploding
23. Hooks automatic checks on everything an agent does
24. Memory what the AI remembers between chats
25. Agent boards where AIs talk to other AIs
26. Model updates re-tuning it all when a new model drops

Or skip all 26. I set it up and hand your team the Owner’s Manual.