This is your file system
You already know this screen. Every one of those folders is a room in your computer, and the terminal is another door into the same building.
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Open one on Windows and Mac, and type your first word
On a Mac press command and space. On Windows use the search box on the taskbar. Type terminal, press enter. The blinking line is the cursor, and it means your turn.
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What is an AI agent, in plain terms?
An AI agent is a language model that is allowed to take actions, not just write answers: it can open files, call tools, check its own results and keep going until a task is done or it gets stuck.
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What a terminal actually is
Every app you use is a picture of your computer. The terminal is the computer with the picture taken off.
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Why does AI make things up?
An AI hallucination is a confident answer that is not true: the model produced the most likely sounding text rather than a checked fact, because it was trained and scored on producing text, not on knowing when to stop.
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What is a context window?
A context window is the most text an AI model can hold in view at once, counted in tokens: your messages, its replies, any pasted files and its hidden instructions all have to fit inside it.
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What is a token in AI?
A token is the unit of text an AI model reads and writes: a chunk about four characters long in English, so a short word is one token and a long word is two or three.
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They Say AI Will End Us. Every Incident Report Names a Person.
On Saturday the chief executive of Anthropic asked his own industry to slow down, warning that a swarm of AI agents could take over the internet inside a year. A researcher who resigned the week before put the odds of human extinction at ten percent. Those warnings point at four specific incidents from this summer, and all four have public reports. The cause on the page is a person every time.
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The Business Plans Have It Switched Off. Yours Does Not.
There is a difference between a company storing your conversation and a company learning from it. The first one you probably assumed. The second is switched on right now in nearly every AI tool you use, and in most of them nobody asked you first. I read the privacy documentation at five companies and wrote down the exact setting in each.
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What Is a Context Window? Why Long Chats Start Forgetting
A long conversation with an AI starts strong and then quietly stops holding on to what you agreed. People read that as the model losing the thread. It is simpler than that.…
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