A working author’s field notes from four books written with AI in the loop — what worked, what cracked him up, and what made him shout STOP! Just DO IT! Leave me alone! Rhymed, illustrated, and very honest. From the publisher of Elijah Comes Aware, WTF, and the Awareness Series.
Available on Amazon as Kindle eBook and paperback. Short enough to read in a sitting, sharp enough to send to a colleague.
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Every other AI book seems to be a doom prophecy or a hype sermon. Michael Forrest didn’t want to write either. He wanted to write down what actually happened when one human sat down and tried to use these tools to build real books that hold up on a shelf.
Forrest and the AI Machine is the result: a short, rhyming, illustrated tour through the year he spent publishing Elijah Comes Aware, Brilliantly YOU!, WTF, and the Awareness Series with AI as his apprentice. It’s funny when it should be, sharp when it needs to be, and quietly serious about where this is all going.
You’ll meet the engines as they actually behave — the flatterer who didn’t know what year it was, the apprentice who lectured back, the selection tool that landed a butterfly in a ghostly rectangle, the recursive trick that quietly made everything better. You’ll see the wins. You’ll see the slogs (looking at you, InDesign).
Each spread pairs a rhymed observation with an original illustration that punches above its weight. The full book runs short enough to read on a flight, but the ideas keep going long after.
In 1855 the steam-loom rolled in and everyone panicked about jobs. The world didn’t end — the work changed. We’re standing at a similar moment right now, and the people doing the most useful thinking are the ones actually building with these tools instead of arguing about them.
This book is one builder’s honest receipt. Bullish where it should be. Worried where it should be. And clear about the only thing left that the machines can’t do for us yet: conceive, imagine, and say what’s true.
A wonderfully twisted report on building books with robots
Short, illustrated, and shareable. Pair it with a coffee or a LinkedIn rant. The honest field notes of a working author who built four books with AI as his apprentice — what hit, what missed, and where this is all going.