Tay · your AI coach
You’re not bad at AI.
Nobody taught you how to talk to it.
Tell Tay what you’re trying to get done. She asks which AI you’re using, learns its quirks, then either hands you the exact words to paste — or teaches you how to write them yourself.
That isn’t you. ChatGPT doesn’t know AMA unless you tell it, and when it’s unsure it fills the gap with something that sounds right.
One question: is this a reference list from real sources you already have, or are you asking it to find them too?
Format these references in AMA 11th edition. Use only the sources I paste — if a detail is missing, write [missing] instead of guessing. Show the list before you explain anything.
What she does
Three things she does before your coffee cools.
Prompt surgery
“Teach me” or “write it for me”
Two ways to get unstuck. One explains the move so you can reuse it forever. The other hands you a finished prompt, already shaped for the AI you actually use.
The map
Where everything actually lives
Settings hide in different corners on a laptop than on a phone. Tay keeps the map: history, memory, voice, model choice, connectors — and the difference between them.
The dictionary
Tokens, credits, context — in English
The words people throw around like everyone knows them. Each one gets a plain sentence, why it matters to you, and an example you can picture.
Playbooks
She knows how each one wants to be spoken to.
Every AI has a temperament: what it over-agrees with, what it quietly skips, the shape of prompt it was trained on. Tay keeps a page on each, and asks which one you’re on before she answers.
The mini dictionary
Nobody explained the words.
So here they are, without the condescension. One plain sentence, why it matters to you, and an example you can picture.
The unit an AI counts in. Roughly three quarters of a word. Every message you send and receive is measured in these.
How much it can hold in mind at once — your whole conversation counts toward it. Past the edge, it starts forgetting the beginning.
When it fills a gap with something that sounds right and isn’t. It isn’t lying; it’s guessing confidently.
Levels
Start where you are. Move up when you want to.
Foundations
Learn the language
Plain answers, tool playbooks, the dictionary, and the settings map. Enough to stop feeling talked over.
Studio
Make things
Image, video and voice prompting, plus connectors — how to get your own files and accounts into the conversation.
Architect
Build systems
Multi-step workflows, agents, and teaching AI to code with you instead of at you.
Nothing to install
Bring the thing you’ve been putting off.
The paper. The listing. The video you can’t get right. Tay will ask what you’re using, and start from there.