There is nothing more frustrating in life currently around AI than watching podcasts of successful entrepreneurs and billionaires going on shows and when they’re asked what is the number one recommendation for people at the moment, they just say “learn AI” with no specifics or any actual guidance. What does “learn AI” even mean? How can you even learn AI? It doesn’t make any sense.
This is the absolute best way I think to learn AI in 2026. First off, review your current subscription and tech stack that you use on a regular to semi-regular basis—everything from tweet schedulers to to-do lists to calorie trackers. Everything you pay for. List these all out and then go to Claude and take the easiest one and ask it to help you make your own bespoke version using Claude Code, not to sell. Do this one by one for each of your subscriptions and two things will happen.
First, you’ll obviously get your monthly subscriptions down and your business costs down to help you reinvest in using AI tools and buying more tokens if needed.
Secondly, you will start to learn how software and apps actually work—the front end, the back end, the languages used, how a database works, how to connect to an API. You’ll start to understand technical aspects you didn’t even know about. As you learn more and more about this, you will then start to be able to write better prompts and build better apps outside of these as you have more knowledge in your arsenal.
You’ll also then be able to spot the patterns within AI—when it starts hallucinating, when it works, what prompts give you certain outputs, and how to build certain things. Once you’re going through the process list and you’ve built some bespoke apps which may not look as good or function as well but they work for you and were built solely by you and AI, you need to start looking at every constraint in your business and your life and asking
How can I use AI to help solve this?
This could be anything from writing banging tweets to get more impressions, to automating business workflows with AI agents, or building a new website.
You become someone who can use AI to solve things and address issues in the business, which is where the world is going—people who know how to solve constraints using AI without needing a whole host of teams. From here you can specialize in one aspect such as AI agents and build automated workflows for bespoke companies and sell them solutions.