Fear and Loathing in the Age of AI: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Collaborate with a Large Language Model - Tapa blanda

Poorman, Donald

9798317836634: Fear and Loathing in the Age of AI: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Collaborate with a Large Language Model

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ISBN 13: 9798317836634

Editorial: BookBaby, 2026

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Over the course of six weeks of intensive collaboration in Fall 2025, seasoned technologist and writer Don Poorman partnered with Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, to explore what becomes possible when intellectual curiosity meets computational pattern recognition. What emerged is neither purely human nor purely artificial. Rather, it's a genuine synthesis that challenges our assumptions about creativity, authorship, and the future of human expression.
Follow Don's transformation from AI skeptic to enthusiastic collaborator, prompted from a simple test comparing how different AI models explain Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Claude's response to Don's initial prompt stopped him cold―it wasn't just accurate, it was pedagogical, conversational, and deeply thoughtful.
That moment cracked open six weeks of intensive exploration that produced satirical stories, philosophical essays, social commentary, and, ultimately, a four-hundred-page manuscript documenting the journey itself.
Drawing inspiration from Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo journalism, this work deliberately blurs the line between human and AI contributions. The result is a literary performance piece where readers are invited to guess which voice belongs to whom―a challenge the authors acknowledge may be impossible even for themselves at this point. The book doesn't just discuss human-AI collaboration; it embodies it, with every page serving as evidence of what this partnership can produce when execution barriers fall and creative bandwidth multiplies.

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Don Poorman brings a unique combination of professional technology expertise and creative writing experience to his works. With decades of experience in information technology, Don has witnessed multiple hype cycles from enterprise computing to cloud infrastructure―allowing him to distinguish genuine innovation from overblown promises. Combined with his "street philosopher" identity where he applies philosophical frameworks to everyday observations and insight, Don's writing focuses on the intersection of technology, philosophy, and human behavior.
Don has written a variety of works across multiple formats including essays, stories, and satirical commentary on modern culture.

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What happens when a skeptical technologist spends six weeks intensively collaborating with Anthropic's Claude to write a book? 388 pages of evidence that human-AI creative partnership can produce depth and not just slop.

Most writing about artificial intelligence falls into predictable categories: productivity guides promising to 10x your output, technical manuals for developers, or dystopian warnings about automation and job loss. This book offers something different, a rigorous exploration of what AI collaboration means for human creativity, told through the actual experience of someone figuring it out in real time.

The central metaphor, AI as the calculator for writing, reframes the entire debate. Just as calculators freed mathematicians from arithmetic to focus on actual mathematics, AI collaboration frees writers from mechanical word-grinding to focus on actual creative work.

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