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📋Table of Contents (Kinda)
Let’s face it: Substack’s Archive page isn’t great.
You can’t even filter or sort it in any meaningful way.
That’s why this Start Here page exists.
Below is a manually categorized archive of Why Try AI posts.
I hope it makes it easier to find what you’re looking for!
Here are the category shortcuts:1
If you’re still stuck or have a question, I’m just a button click away:
📰 AI News
Every Sunday, I catch you up on AI news. Find all 70+ issues here:
👩💻 AI Coding
Posts about programming with AI.
Can I, a Noob, Create a Useful Site With The Help Of AI? Let's Find Out! (Part One.)
Noob Creates a Useful-ish Site With The Help Of AI. (Part Two.)
🗣️ AI Chatbots & LLMs
Everything to do with prompting and working with large language models.
“Help Me Help You.” How to Get AI Chatbots To Prompt Themselves.
It Takes Two to Tango. Why You Should Use GPT-4o and o1 in Tandem.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Fantastic Model Held Back by Lack of Native Internet Access
🖼️ AI Images
Posts about working with AI image models and tools.
How to Test Your Text Prompts With Free AI Art Generators [+Video]
How to Use Google’s Autodraw Tool to Create Your AI Art Starting Images
The "Secret Sauce" Behind DALL-E 3: How Is It So Good At Following Instructions?
From Sketch to Reality: Let’s Test Drive Adobe’s "Structure Reference"
How To Find New Styles in Midjourney & Use Genspark to Test Image Prompts
No, DeepSeek’s Janus-Pro-7B Doesn’t Make Better Images Than DALL-E 3.
Gemini 2.0 Flash Makes Mediocre Images...But That's Not The Point!
OpenAI Launches 4o Image Generation, Ruins Reve’s Rad Reveal.
Text-to-Image Model Showdown: GPT-4o vs. Ideogram 3.0 vs. Reve 1.0
Hands-on with Krea 1: Does It Really Get Rid of the “AI Look”?
🎵 AI Music & Audio
Posts about AI music models and tools.
Google Has Impressive New Music AI. And No, You Can’t Have It.
Battle of the Bands II: MusicFX vs. MusicGen vs. Stable Audio
📽️ AI Video
Posts about AI video models and tools.
💡 Opinion
My thoughts and opinions about AI.
Surprising Parallels Between Text-To-Image AI Models & Mobile Operating Systems
I Checked Out All 35 Google Labs Experiments: Here's The Scoop
🎨 Midjourney
I’ve written so much about Midjourney that it deserves a standalone category.
See also:
❔ Other
This is a catch-all page for posts that don’t fall into the above categories.
🤝 Collaborations
Guest posts, podcasts, and other collaborations with different people.
Can AI Be Funny? - with
( )Lenses - with
( )Chinese Apps Notch Early Wins in AI Video - featuring a quote from my interview with Juro Osawa of The Information
AI Alongside Episode 1: Google's Learn About - with
()AI Alongside Episode 4: Have AI Models Peaked and Do We Care? - with
()Denmark's Gefion: The AI supercomputer that puts society first - my guest post for
Top Beginner’s Guide to AI Video - my guest post for
The Magic & Horror of ChatGPT's Image Generator - my chat with Tobias Mark Jensen (aka
)Genspark 101: Everything You Need To Know - my guest post for
Trending AI Tools of 2025 - my collaboration with
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Wait. This “Table Of Contents” has its own “Table Of Contents”? What kind of Inception-y page is this?!
Incredible list of postings, Daniel. Wish I could upgrade and be awesome; however, retired teacher's pension (North Carolina) does not allow for many extras. Thank you for all your knowledge; I look forward to learning something about AI.