Jamie Metzl

So we'd do a bunch of back and forth.

And when it was pretty decent, these three paragraphs, then I would take it out.

I'd put these paragraphs in Microsoft Word.

And I would do a full line edit of those three pairs.

Then I would put them back in GPT-5 and say, here's what I have.

How can I make it better?

And he would make some recommendations.

And so it was hundreds of that.

It was much harder to actually write this, but it would have been easier.

And I could have done it just to sit down on my own.

And so when I finished the book, it was such an intimate, creative experience.

collaboration.

And the book is different because of that.

I just thought, like we just said, well, it would be fraudulent for me not to talk about that.

But nine months ago, when I started the process of writing, I thought people are going to think this is so cool and so creative.

But in the nine months between then and now, like our entire society has turned against AI.

And what I thought, oh, that's really creative.

What did the collaboration look like?

People think just what you said.

Oh, you must have just pressed a button and gone out and gone swimming and came back and say, hey, there's a book.