Generative AI · tested, not hyped
The AI that writes and answers.
Chatbots, writing tools, and everyday uses — every price checked, every claim dated, and the traps named before you pay.
What is Generative AI?
Generative AI is software that produces something new on request — a paragraph, an answer, a repaired photograph. It lives in a chat box rather than a body, which makes it the half of AI most people meet first.
Everything below is written for people, not algorithms: exact steps, real prices with the month they were verified, and an honest note wherever the free tier ends. Looking for robots and chips instead? That’s the Physical AI library.
Start with AI, at any age
STEP 1 · START HERE Numbered for a reason — take them in order, one afternoon each.
Plain-English walkthroughs for people meeting AI for the first time — every screen, every button, nothing assumed.
AI writing tools, reviewed
Side-by-side testing with dated prices — including the tools that quietly got worse.
Working with AI
Putting it to work without getting penalized — or overcharged.
Coming next
Spreadsheets in plain English · planning a trip with AI · preparing for a doctor’s visit. New guides land weekly — the Lab Report announces each one.
30-second tour · what this page is for
Which chatbot, for what you actually do?
- Tested side by side — ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini on the same real task — not on benchmarks.
- Beginner walkthroughs — The same guides I hand my own family, step by step.
- Free vs paid, in dollars — What the twenty dollars buys, and when free is genuinely enough.
Where this goes next
These tools answer. The next step is tools that act — planning, running commands, fixing their own errors. That is the Agentic AI library.