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The 5 Levels of AI-Native: How to Get From Level 1 to Level 5 in 30 days | Peter Yang
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Episode The 5 Levels of AI-Native: How to Get From Level 1 to Level 5 in 30 days | Peter Yang
Peter Yang spent 10+ years building products at Roblox, Reddit, Amazon (Twitch), and Meta. Then he walked away from a high-paying job at Roblox to go all-in as a solo builder. His newsletter Behind the Craft has 140K+ readers, and his podcast has deep conversations with 30+ AI leaders from Anthropic, Google, Cursor, and Replit.
In this episode he breaks down how: how to move from using AI like a search engine to building systems that run your work, how to build a personal AI that knows your strategy, and the one thing to do this week to get ahead.
We cover:
• The 5 layers of AI adoption, from "I ask ChatGPT questions" to "AI runs my whole operation," and how to find which layer you're actually on • Why you should stop using ChatGPT and Claude chat and switch to Codex or Claude Code, even if you've never written a line of code • The one-day reset: cancel every meeting, brain-dump your real workflows out loud, and let AI turn them into skills that save hours every week • TRICK: the personal advisor skill — a one-page Google Doc with your goal, your principles, and what gives vs. drains your energy, so your AI checks your decisions before you make them • How he uses learnings.md so his AI remembers the right things about him and gets smarter every conversation • The "last 10%" rule that keeps AI content from becoming slop, and why human taste is the whole job now • How he builds a working personal app (a fitness tracker, a scam-email blocker for his parents) in a couple of hours • His honest fears: getting dumber on a flight with no wifi, and what he's doing differently to raise kids who still learn the fundamentals • The exact action plan for your next 7 days to go from consumer to builder
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