Hi everyone, I’m 33, have a business degree, and spent many years self-employed in consulting and marketing. Over the last few years, AI has completely changed the way I think about the future. The more I learn about it, the more convinced I become that we’re witnessing the most important technological shift of our lifetime. I genuinely want AI to become a major part of my career going forward. The challenge is that I don’t come from a technical background. I’ve never studied computer science and I can’t code. I’m comfortable using tools like ChatGPT, Claude and others, I’ve experimented a lot, built a few simple websites with AI assistance and automated some small personal tasks, but that’s about it. If you were in my position today, how would you approach this? Where would you start? What would you focus on first, and what would you learn after that? Would you spend time learning to code, or do you think that’s becoming less important as AI gets better and better? If you were learning from scratch today, which skills would you prioritize and which ones would you ignore? I’m also curious whether there are any courses, certifications, learning paths or resources that you genuinely think are worth the time, and which skills you believe will be the most valuable over the next 5–10 years. I’m not looking for shortcuts. I’m happy to put in the work. I’m just trying to avoid spending hundreds of hours learning the wrong things. Curious to hear what you’d do if you were starting from scratch today. submitted by /u/Aggressive_Penalty88
Originally posted by u/Aggressive_Penalty88 on r/ClaudeCode