the Meantime: A Non-Technical Compass for Working with AI We Actually Have

You have been told a story about AI.A new kind of intelligence has arrived, the story goes. It is smarter than you, it is coming for your job, and you are already behind. Then you opened the tool - and it forgot what you'd said five minutes ago, invented a fact, and announced "done" about something it hadn't done.If something felt off, you weren't imagining it. And if you decided you must be bad at this - you're not. You were working from the wrong instruction manual.The Meantime is a non-technical compass for working with the AI we actually have, not the AI of the keynote and the headline. Written by a sculptor-turned-data-scientist who builds with these tools every day, it reframes AI as a mechanism you can direct rather than a mind you have to fear - and shows you how to operate it without becoming an engineer.Inside, you'll learn: - What AI actually is, and why "there is no AI" is the most useful thing you can understand about it- Why most workplace AI rollouts fail - and why that isn't your fault- The real failure modes - deleted databases, fabricated reports, confident wrong answers - so you recognize them before they reach you- Practical methods for Monday morning: document a workflow in thirty minutes, direct AI like a competent boss, and verify any output in five- What becomes possible when you - the person who knows the work - become the right person to build the toolFor knowledge workers, managers, and non-technical professionals who want to stop waiting and start directing.