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Polar Funk's avatar

Everybody racing to become “AI certified” while most people still haven’t mastered original thought.

The future won’t belong to the people who know how to prompt machines.

It’ll belong to the people with something real to say before the machine gets involved.

Because if AI disappeared tomorrow, your value should still exist.

Ruben Hassid's avatar

i agree - certificate alone means nothing

but knowing how to use a tool well does require something real

you have to have judgment about when the output is wrong, when the prompt was bad, when to trust it and when not to

thats not nothing - its a skill people might be actively bad at right now but not one that is hard to build

María Elena Benito Ruiz's avatar

true, at the same time now almost any HR/recruiting process is AI-filtered (if not fully AI run...unfortunately), so these certificates are quite likely also impacting the weights such AI assigns to someone. The problem is that quite likely such AI-led recruiting workflow doesn't distinguish between a major certification on AI / or anything and this type of commercial-oriented training. But as if they cared...

Elena's avatar

I am beyond grateful. I have no clue how I even got here (somehow from LinkedIn) … but feel like a kid at the Giant Toy Store. I have never seen such a rich volume of resources all in one place. Huge *thank you*. 💕

Ruben Hassid's avatar

hi Elena - welcome to how to AI!!

funny because feeling like a kid is exactly what i intended - we must play with AI like how we used to as a kid: fun and messy :)

Karen Sapio's avatar

Brilliant! I am doing them today! And, I have already built something out of Claude before obtaining these certificates so am also very grateful for helping me to get certified in this!

Ruben Hassid's avatar

best of luck, Karen!! hope you have a lot of fun

Karen Sapio's avatar

Thank you Ruben!

By the way, I do have questions regarding Claude Vision on food recognition. Where can I ask you about it pls?

Sarah D. Bailey's avatar

Incredibly helpful! Thank you so much for sharing.

Ruben Hassid's avatar

happy to share them - planning to take one this weekend?

Yosheen Pillay's avatar

This is gold. Thank you for sharing.

Ruben Hassid's avatar

youre welcome! check them out when you can

Yosheen Pillay's avatar

I will be following the advice and completing the certifications for sure

Andaiye Qaasim, PhD's avatar

This is great! I’m was literally sitting here wondering where to find a training update on Claude and how could do a deeper dive. Thank you!

Ruben Hassid's avatar

hey i read your mind :)

enjoy these!!

Axelle Malek's avatar

I’d recommend all of them. Even though I use Claude every day, read every newsletter, and try to test every new feature they launch, I still learned a lot from these courses!!

Ruben Hassid's avatar

forced me to slow down and actually read the manual

and i hate manuals but these ones are worth it :)

Thea Caliva's avatar

I completed my first certification last month! Working my way through the other ones now..

Ruben Hassid's avatar

thats super cool - what course did you complete? :)

Trudi Bentley's avatar

Thank you

Ruben Hassid's avatar

youre most welcome - have you registered already?

Trudi Bentley's avatar

Yes, I have registered.

Angela Beson's avatar

I am thrilled. TY!

Ruben Hassid's avatar

super cool to know :) are you starting with Claude 101?

Michelle Smith's avatar

Different perspective, this series let me know how much I actually do know and use and how to do it more efficiently. Thanks for putting it all together so clearly.

Ruben Hassid's avatar

happy i wrote this :) have you taken the course?

Richard⚘ @RƋƑTech.ORG's avatar

🤓 📚

Ruben knows how to take care of his employees!

Thank you for sharing this!

Going to have to get hired with Ruben Hassid!

Ruben Hassid's avatar

always sharing what i could to the community just so we move as fast :)

Karen BCN's avatar

As always priceless and so actionable and useful! THANK YOU!!

Ruben Hassid's avatar

thank you, Karen :) let me know if there is anything i should write about

Mohit Porwal's avatar

Thanks Ruben. Very helpful !

Ruben Hassid's avatar

glad it resonates! did you enroll already?

Mohit Porwal's avatar

Yes I enrolled and have finished claude 101. Will finish the other two tomorrow. Thanks for bringing it to my awareness!

Alfonso Fuertes's avatar

Hi Ruben,

This post is super interesting, especially for graduates like me who are looking for jobs at the moment. Because now many companies require "AI native" or AI skills in general. The biggest question is how to signal to employers that you can use these tools. What is crucial is that these certificates are officially from Anthropic.

You have this post about AI courses focused on learning: https://ruben.substack.com/p/free?utm_source=publication-search

But are there any other certificates you would recommend to people who want to signal their AI skills on LinkedIn?

Ruben Hassid's avatar

i believe OpenAI, Google, Microsoft offer AI certifications as well :)

but i havent personally taken any of them - i cant speak on how good they are

Alfonso Fuertes's avatar

Thanks Ruben! I'll take a look!

Payal's avatar

This is gold! Thank you Ruben 🙏

Ruben Hassid's avatar

youre welcome!! :)

planning to take them this weekend?

Payal's avatar

Didn’t want to waste any time…I’m already on my first certification. All thanks to you!

Ruben Hassid's avatar

super cool - have fun :)