Links for a Quick Start

Some things are harder than they should be. Here’s some help.

Stuff I’ve written

Salesforce

• How to get a free OmniStudio Demo Org
  
  When you’re playing with AI, it’s best to have an org or two you can experiment with rather than using something production-ish.
  

• How to get a consumer key and secret for API access
  
  External applications that connect to Salesforce can use name, password, key, and secret to log in without having to go through a UI-base authorization. But the process for getting the key and secret set up is not obvious.
  

• Creating a Named Credential
  
  If you want to have a Salesforce application (eg something in APEX) access an external resource, you have configure Salesforce to allow you to do that. Like all security related tasks, there’s a particular set of steps in a particular order that need to be completed.

OpenAI

• Getting Started with OpenAI
  
  No big tricks, just set a limit. Really.

Google Colab

• Using Google Colab
  
  Google Colab is an incredible, free tool for building and running Python applications, and makes it easy to share applications with others. It’s a great way to deliver instructive examples.

A Few Other Recommendations

1. Andreessen Horowitz’s AI Canon
   
   Lots of good references for how things work, tools to work with them, and training to take.