Crawl, Walk, Run (Levels of AI proficiency)

Just posting to help conceptualize that AI encompasses many things to different people at different skill levels and use cases. It might be helpful to find yourself and your use case in here. Source of this: just me taking this from other technology domains I work in.

Crawl: new to AI, learn some helpful prompts (hey, we all love some good prompts), make a GPT clone using prompts, maybe some light external app connections (plug a GPT into your email, calendar). All pretty easy to pick up, but can be overwhelming if you only heard about it.

Walk: using external tools to connect between apps to make workflows, playing with the creator tools like Replit, Blotato, Zapier, Make, etc.

Run: All the advanced stuff, making full AI apps in AWS bedrock, Azure AI studio, etc. Coding your own bots and models for SaaS apps that aren't just a wrapper for public AI tool APIs.

The challenge is that the community is probably a mix of Crawl and Walk, with maybe some that are at the run level.

There are also different goals in mind: solopreneur, passive income, social media content, blogs, business data analysis, app building, education, enterprise level workflows and apps, AI security advisory, compliance, you name it.

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