This Is Probably All Nonsense: A funny novel about work, AI and figuring it out as you go

The future arrives at 9:07 on a Monday morning.Sam would rather it hadn't.For nearly twenty years, Sam has built a life around being quietly competent. Knowing when a number is wrong. Finding the sentence that won't start an argument. Reading the room. Surviving a "quick five minutes" that takes half an hour.It isn't glamorous.But Sam knows who they are inside it.Then everyone starts talking differently.New words appear. New habits spread. People who seemed just as confused last week are suddenly explaining things with alarming confidence. Dan has a framework. Of course Dan has a framework.Sam's position is simple: This is probably all nonsense.Then one small thing works.Then another.And soon Sam is doing something considerably worse than being left behind.Changing their mind.What begins as reluctant curiosity becomes something harder to dismiss: a quiet reckoning with usefulness, pride, getting older, and the unsettling feeling that the things you spent years becoming good at might not matter in quite the same way anymore.Funny, tender and sharply observed, This Is Probably All Nonsense is a novel about the comfort of certainty and the indignity of becoming a beginner again.About the things we cling to because they make us feel useful.About being wrong in front of other people.And about discovering that the future rarely arrives with any sense of occasion.Sometimes it just turns up in the middle of an ordinary day and carries on as if it has always been there.