Tell us three things: 1. What you do (job, industry, student, career-changer, whatever) 2. What brought you to Clief Notes 3. One thing you're trying to figure out right now related to computing or AI I'll respond to every single one. And read each other's intros too because the person who's stuck on the same problem as you might already be in this thread. I'll go first I am Jake, I have been working in tech for 15 Years, building with Generative AI for 3 Years straight now! Excited to teach and learn! That's it. Simple, scannable, gives you data on who's joining and what they need, and keeps the feed clear for content that retains people past week one.

Hello everyone! Is there a section here in the skool community where ALL the submissions are listed for each week's challenges? @Don Roy created a post for the past winner's links, which is great. https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-competition-megathread But, since this is a learning journey for the community, I think we can benefit from learning where we may fall short from others. Glad to have found this community, it's amazing to see how this community has grown.

Hey everyone, If you’ve been quietly struggling with learning how to build or what to build, you’re not alone. I’ve seen the posts, and I know how frustrating it can feel when things don’t click. I wanted to try to do something about it. I built a custom AI Tutor that has the complete knowledge and teaching style of @Jake Van Clief and @Matthew Creamer’s Foundations courses. Think of Jake as the professor. This agent is your dedicated Teacher’s Assistant who sits with you one-on-one. Here’s why it’s different: • It walks you through every concept step by step, exactly as Jake outlines them • You’re not just chatting or watching videos. You’re actually building files and folders together in Claude • It checks your work in real time and won’t let you move forward until you truly understand • It speaks in their voice and follows their exact methodology This is the hands-on practice and patient guidance a lot of us have been missing. How to try it: 1. Grab the repo 2. Follow the README 3. Open the folder in Claude and let the tutor take over I’m very proud of how it turned out and I want this to help as many people as possible. We just crossed 30,000 members! Let’s make sure every single one of us has the support they need to actually master this stuff. If you try it, please drop a comment and let me know: • Did it help you understand a concept that was confusing before? • What worked well? • What could be better? I want your honest feedback so we can keep improving it together. I’d love it if this could turn into a proper community teaching tool we all build and evolve. Link in comments 👇

Don’t know if we have any other hobbyist astrophotographers here but I just learned that a widely used software called Pixinsight has an MCP server! The software is used for data post processing from raw astro photos. It is script based so it makes perfect sense in hindsight that this would work with an LLM. So curious how well this can work if anyone else possibly has played with this (not holding my breath) I could see it doing well from a raw pixel data transformation perspective but the LLM obviously does not have any of the artistic ability a human does. May give it some of my data to play around with. For reference I’ve attached my latest photo I took in April of m101 the pinwheel galaxy.

I’ve seen a number of people either not know competitions are going on or know how to find them so here is a quick single source thread where you can get them all. I’ll keep this updated as new challenges are released. Current Challenge* Week 5 Due Sunday 5/24 12 PM EST The Challenge 💪 - Build an AI coach in the domain of your choosing Rules 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-5-the-coach?p=77754fed Results 🏆 - could be you! Week 1 The Challenge 💪 - Build a brand voice document for a pet grooming business Rules 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/first-ever-weekly-competition-is-live?p=90f50bf9 Results 🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-1-winner-ian-barriopedro?p=0501b57e Week 2 The Challenge 💪 - Build an artifact of a financial advisor client intake system Rules 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-2-the-artifact-sprint?p=15145a68 Results 🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-2-winner-virgilio-robinson Week 3 The Challenge 💪 - Build an AI specialist of your choice using the ICM method Rules 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-3-the-specialist Results 🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-3-winner