# Session 1 — Orientation

This first session is about **calibration**: getting your sense of what computers and AI can do today onto the same page as reality.

You will not leave this session with a project. You'll leave with a question rattling around your head, and — we hope — a different relationship with the device in your pocket.

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## What to bring

Nothing. No laptop required. No installs. No accounts.

Come ready to watch, ask questions, and think.

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## What we'll do together

The session has roughly four parts:

1. **Why this class exists.** The gap between what technology can do and what people are doing with it, and why right now is an unusual moment.
2. **The flip.** Your computer is not a fixed set of apps with bugs you have to live with. It's a programmable, instructable machine. Once you see it that way, you can't unsee it.
3. **Live demos.** Real things, solving real friction, in front of you. We'll be typing, correcting, and iterating on stage — not because we're showing off, but because seeing the human in the loop is the part that demystifies it.
4. **The seed question.** Where in *your* life is there friction because technology has never been pointed at it for *you*? We'll talk about it together. You don't have to have an answer.

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## What you'll take home

One assignment, if you want to call it that:

> **Notice friction this week.**
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> Pay attention to the things you do on a computer or a phone that feel tedious, repetitive, or "this should just work." Write a few of them down. Don't filter — even silly ones.

Bring whatever you have (or don't have) to the next session. We'll start working from there.

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## After the session

If a thought stuck with you and you want to talk about it before next time, reach out to either of us. That's what we're here for.

See [`../personal-project.md`](../personal-project.md) if you want to read more about where this is all going.
