# Collection of "how I use AI" links

Published: 2025-08-28T00:00:00.000Z
Canonical: https://wow.pjh.is/journal/how-i-use-ai-roundup

To use AI, you need to *ideas* for how to use it.

So here's a roundup of people describing what they're up to. Roughly half came via [Gavin Leech](https://www.gleech.org/llms).

## Blog posts

### Top tier

* [Andy Masley](https://andymasley.substack.com/p/how-i-use-ai) (April 2025) ⭐
* [Andrej Karpathy ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWvNQjAaOHw) (February 2025) ⭐
* [Nicholas Carlini](https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024/how-i-use-ai.html) (August 2024) ⭐
* [Olivia Moore](https://x.com/omooretweets/status/1955638127609176346?t=XZc21J6ObJWZ8qekOFsvDQ) (August 2025) ⭐
* Peter Hartree: ["How 'Team Hartree' has helped me"](https://80000hours.org/2025/04/to-understand-ai-you-should-use-it-heres-how-to-get-started/#3-how-team-hartree-has-helped-me) (April 2025), and the journal you're reading right now. ⭐
* Simon Willison: [AI-assisted search](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/), [Claude artefacts](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/21/claude-artifacts/) and [how I use LLMs for code](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/) (October 2024 - March 2025) ⭐

### Best of the rest

* [Avital Balwit](https://www.avitalbalwit.com/post/how-i-use-claude) (October 2024)
* [Ben Congdon](https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/02/02/How-I-Use-AI-Early-2025/) (February 2025)
* [Gavin Leech](https://www.gleech.org/llms) (April 2025) (and see also [Vitalik: AI is great when I'm a noob, but not when I'm a world expert](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/great-when-noob))
* [Jacques Thibodeau](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CYYBW8QCMK722GDpz/how-much-i-m-paying-for-ai-productivity-software-and-the) (October 2024)
* [Jeff Kaufman](https://www.jefftk.com/p/examples-of-how-i-use-llms) (October 2024)
* [Kaj Sotala](https://kajsotala.fi/2025/01/things-i-have-been-using-llms-for/) (January 2025)
* [Shrivu Shankar](https://blog.sshh.io/p/how-i-use-ai-2025) (June 2025)

## Podcasts

* [AI & I](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuMcoKK9mKgHtW_o9h5sGO2vXrffKHwJL). Start with [Dwarkesh Patel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm49oIPtyRE) and [Simon Eskildson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_4AYLr_hFI) (both discuss using LLMs to learn).
* [How I AI](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpu_5pNweMT0m43j_5p9o1-UOO32u1Oyl).

## What have I missed?

I'm seeking more. Please [send me](mailto:wow@pjh.is) other examples. And write your own!