I taught him my template. He made a better one.

hey everyone, this is Allan.

Mentoring Week Three

Today I’m talking about the third week of the mentoring I started for a friend. The mentoring topic is integrating AI into his business. The first session had two people: Pedro, who runs a company with his brother Gabriel, and Gabriel himself. We’re working together to help them integrate AI into their business processes, mainly using cloud code and building tools that save time and enable them to do more, because AI lets you work faster and do things you couldn’t do on your own.

Live Feedback vs Video

One thing I’ve been thinking about is how different this process is from recording a video. When I post a video, I don’t get real‑time feedback. Viewers can leave comments, but they can’t ask questions and get answers immediately. In today’s call, Pedro had been implementing the AI fixes I’ve been teaching him for three weeks, while Gabriel joined the call for the first time and had different questions because his work routine is different. That meant I had to explain things in different ways for each of them.

Teaching Git Branches

For example, I explained how to work with Git branches. Developers find that easy, but for someone just starting with Git and GitHub it wasn’t simple to understand how branches work and how to keep everything synchronized in the same repository.

Instagram Template Insight

Last week, as part of the mentoring deliverables, I gave Pedro a skill for publishing content on Instagram using a template I use for my own posts. Pedro modified it and created a template that looks a lot like a Twitter post, something I’ve never made myself. I asked him to send me the basic version because I think it’s a great model for Instagram right now. Seeing him take what I taught, adapt it, and improve on it made me happy. It showed that when people pay for something, the market’s real needs start to surface, and it gives me material for new content.

Creating Content from Mentoring

From today’s call I extracted a whole guide about Git for beginners. Anyone who learns with me from now on will have that guide organized in a way that’s easier to understand. Recording this video is another piece of that ecosystem: a problem is solved, I create a video about it, and the content feeds itself. Organizing my thoughts about AI, cloud code, and turning processes into teachable skills forces me to break everything into clear steps, which reveals gaps in my own knowledge and tells me where I need to deepen my understanding.

Feynman Technique

It reminds me of the Feynman technique, writing about a topic as if you’re teaching someone else. Nothing beats actually teaching someone who has real problems. That experience strengthens my fundamentals in AI.

AI as Leverage

I keep in mind that AI is leverage. I’m not trying to give Pedro and Gabriel my labor; I’m giving them something they can run on their own. Just as Pedro took my templates and made something better for himself, AI multiplies that capability.

That’s it for this video, just some thoughts about the call and what’s been on my mind this afternoon. See you in another video.