I wrote a book about AI — using AI — to prove a point.
When the conversation about AI at work shifted from "interesting experiment" to "your job might be next," I noticed something most people missed: the people thriving weren't the engineers or the tech leads. They were the communicators. The ones who knew how to ask the right question in the right way.
Prompt engineering — the skill everyone suddenly needed — turned out to be less about syntax and more about clarity of thought. It's the same skill good writers, good managers, and good teachers have always had. It just had a new name.
I wanted to teach that skill in a way that actually sticks. Not a tutorial. Not a listicle. A story — because we remember stories long after we forget frameworks. So I wrote one. And I wrote it entirely with Claude Opus, because the book should be its own proof of concept.