This isn't about learning to "use AI." It's about learning to think and create alongside it—with intention, clarity, and agency.
"The interface used to be over there — on the screen, in your mouse clicks and keystrokes. Now it’s right here — in your words."
"The model doesn't know what's real. You do. That's why you don't just use the interface—you are the interface."
Prompting isn't just input. It's influence. Your language shapes behavior, designs outcomes, and creates new possibilities.
Navigate menus, memorize shortcuts, adapt to rigid workflows. The interface was something you learned to use.
Shape behavior through conversation. Design outcomes through dialogue. The interface is something you become.
"Good prompting isn't one-shot brilliance. It's structured curiosity."
Most books teach you to follow instructions. This one teaches you to shape conversations. To move from consuming outputs to co-creating outcomes.
"Because a prompt isn't a magic wish. It's a design brief."
In the new world, learning to prompt fluently isn’t optional. It’s essential. You are the interface. If you can’t shape intelligent systems with your words, you’ll be the floppy disk, the cassette tape, the CD of the future.
(And if you don’t know what those are... exactly the point.)
"You are not just using the machine. You are part of it.
You are the interface."