Here's a short, honest glossary of the words that scare people off, translated into plain English.
"Prompt" just means the thing you type — your question or request. That's it, there's no special format required. "Model" is just the name for the specific AI system you're talking to, similar to how "engine" refers to a specific car part you never actually need to think about while driving. "Generative AI" means an AI that creates new text (or images, in some tools) rather than just searching for existing ones — like the difference between asking a friend to write you a note versus asking them to find one that already exists. "Hallucination," in this context, just means the AI got something factually wrong while sounding confident about it — worth knowing, because it means you should double-check anything important, the same as you would with an overconfident stranger.
That's most of the vocabulary that scares people away from trying this in the first place, and none of it is required knowledge to actually use the tool. You can use Claude for years without ever needing to say the word "model" out loud.
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