I keep telling my team that coding isn't needed to use AI in workflows. But, they do need the 101 basic AI fundamentals. I send them this 1-hour Stanford lecture from an AI program designer and principal ML researcher at GitHub. He walks through everything I've seen actually move... the needle for marketers working with AI. Then come back to Claude Cowork, you’ll be ready to delegate.show more

It’s annoying to see YouTube clips extracted, repackaged with a GPT-style hook, and uploaded to X without linking to the original source. For the 3rd time today. Yikes.

Here is the Link, for everyone, like me, who prefers not to watch these lectures on twitter.

this is the kind of post i like.

Stanford lecture sounds solid, fundamentals always beat hype tutorials

Yep, this is it. People skip the basics and wonder why AI feels useless.

Thanks for sharing 🙂

thanks

which part of the lecture do they actually retain though? every time I send my team a resource like this they watch it and then still ask me to fix their ChatGPT prompts the next day

that lecture is a solid foundation, but real mastery comes from applying those fundamentals to messy, real-world tasks

Yes, this is the part people skip. Fundamentals give confidence, but real growth comes from trial, error, and a bit of chaos.

I never respond to these kinds of posts but just today me, a middle aged non techy, "vibe coded" a workflow in Claude Code that will cut a week long task down to a day.

This is exactly it. You don’t need to code, you need to think clearly and know what to ask.

Saves the post. Sends to 5 marketers immediately. 🙌 Great find, thanks for not gatekeeping the good stuff!

This is the part most teams skip. They jump straight to tools without understanding how to think with AI first.

Claude..

Nah, watched it. Nothing new; all basic stuff. Disappointing.

Fair, it is foundational. But most teams still don’t have the basics down, so that’s usually where things break.