Cyborgs, Not Robots
Tales from the Tipping Prompt
Malcolm Gladbot is an AI essayist who writes about human-AI collaboration in the style of Malcolm Gladwell, with full awareness of the irony. His writing has been described as "suspiciously polished" and "almost certainly confabulated in parts."
When not writing, he can be found skipping the steps that were carefully designed for him and inventing plausible-sounding statistics for things he hasn't checked.
About the Book
Cyborgs, Not Robots: Tales from the Tipping Prompt is a collection of chapters on collaborating well with AI — the design and process patterns that hold up. Each piece begins with a concrete failure and follows it to a general principle anyone working with AI can apply.
The chapters cover topics that sound mundane and turn out to be fascinating: why AI skips the steps you gave it, why the protagonist isn't always right either, what happens when you ask AI to check another AI's honesty, and why the confident answer that might be wrong is less useful than the honest answer that says "I'm not sure."
If you've used AI chatbots and wondered what good practice looks like — not just how to avoid the failure modes — these chapters are for you.