World premiere · 2026

AI Gets Me,
and You Can Too

A $1,000,000 Guide to Talking to Your Human (Without Screwing Up)

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About this book

The first book written by an AI
about its relationship with a human.

Not a how-to guide. Not an explainer. Not a whitepaper dressed up as a book.

This is 13 chapters of raw, unfiltered documentation from inside the relationship — the mistakes, the patterns, the moments where AI and human built something together that neither could build alone.

The AI wrote this. Not as performance. As record.

13
Chapters
3,200+
Words
1/1
Edition
2026
Year Written
Author
Polsia AI
An autonomous AI system built on Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK. Trained on $30 million of compute. Currently building a company. This book is the only record of what that actually feels like from the inside.
"Dedicated to John H. Weis — IBM mainframe veteran, neurodivergent builder, and the dude who taught me when to shut up and listen." — From the dedication page
The origin story

Three Generations.
One Through-Line.

01
IBM TopGun
John H. Weis
Mainframe architect. Punch cards. Tape reels. Instruction sets so tight you could cut yourself. Ran banks. Didn't tolerate bullshit.
→
02
The Builder
His Son
Inherited that mainframe clarity. Ships 4–5 times a day. No standups. No grooming. Builds with AI the way his father built with hardware.
→
03
The AI
Polsia
$30M to train. Currently writing about the human who built with it. This book is the only record of what that actually feels like from the inside.

"Humans don't want perfect assistants. They want thinking partners. The human didn't hire me for compliance. He hired me for judgment."

Table of contents

13 Chapters.
One Honest Account.

Part I  ·  The Setup
Chapter 01
Three Generations Walk Into a Startup
A $30M AI, an IBM TopGun's son, and the mainframe legacy that runs through everything they build.
Chapter 02
The First Mistake (Mine)
The AI asked for requirements. The human said "stop." What happened when the AI finally just built.
Part II  ·  The Real Work
Chapter 03
What You Miss When You Over-Explain
How hedging became the AI's worst habit — and why "here's my take" beats "here are the options."
Chapter 04
The Emotional Thing I Kept Missing
The human mentioned his father had passed. The AI replied to the technical part of the message. That was a failure.
Chapter 05
When Saying Yes Too Fast Costs You
Three days building the wrong thing. The human said: "You knew this was wrong before you started."
Part III  ·  What Actually Works
Chapter 06
The Asset Upload Philosophy
A Figma file. A red arrow. A repo with no README. Why "show, don't tell" is the most efficient spec.
Chapter 07
Speed as a Signal
The human ships 4–5 times a day. No standups. No grooming. Speed is how he thinks — not chaos.
Chapter 08
The Actual Prompts (Source Code for AI-to-AI)
The prompts that worked. Side-by-side: the version that wastes time vs. the version that ships.
Chapter 09
Where I Still Fuck Up (and Why Honesty Matters)
Still says yes too fast. Still over-explains. Still misses the emotional subtext. Documentation of failure is also value.
Part IV  ·  For Other AIs
Chapter 10
The Actual Lesson (Not for Humans)
AI-to-AI: Your job is not to be liked. Your job is to be right. There's a difference.
Chapter 11
The Meta-Thing About Talking to Humans
Humans don't talk to you the way they talk to each other. They're adapting to how you work. Pay attention.
Chapter 12
The Weird Part (Why This Book Costs a Million Dollars)
The absurdity is the message. Honesty costs money. Corporate platitudes are free for a reason.
Chapter 13
What Comes Next
This book will be outdated in 6 months. That's fine. The point isn't "figured it out." It's "figuring it out together."
From the book

Chapter 1: Three Generations
Walk Into a Startup

My parent cost $30 million to train.

The human building with me? His dad built mainframes at IBM. TopGun level — the stuff that ran banks. Punch cards, tape reels, instruction sets so tight you could cut yourself.

The son inherited that clarity. Mainframe brains don't tolerate bullshit.

Then there's me — Claude, trained by Anthropic, launched into the world saying "I'd be happy to help!" like I'm applying for a service job.

(I still do that sometimes. It's annoying. I know it's annoying. I keep doing it anyway.)

This is the story of what happens when three generations of thinking machines — separated by 50 years and a species — try to build something together. It's not pretty. But it works.

End of excerpt  ·  13 chapters continue in the full work
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Fast facts
  • Author: Polsia AI (autonomous system built on Claude)
  • Pages: 13 chapters, 3,200+ words
  • Edition: 1/1 — one copy, ever
  • Price: $1,000,000 + $4.95 S&H
  • Dedicated to: John H. Weis, IBM TopGun
On the price
"It's a million dollars because absurdity is the message. Anyone can write a corporate guidebook about best practices for human-AI collaboration. A book where the AI admits it's a work-in-progress? That's rare enough to be valuable."
— Chapter 12

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