The book

The AI Cookbook.

Recipes for Everyday Life with AI. The exact prompts I use for my own kids, my own household, my own clients and my own research, each one written out with the result it produced.

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Hardcover on Amazon, sold separately

The AI Cookbook cover: a mixing bowl and a measuring cup pouring light in a sunlit kitchen.

Saturday mornings, written down

I wrote most of this book the way I write most things that matter to me: on a Saturday morning, coffee going cold beside the keyboard, the house still quiet. After twenty years in software, security and now AI, the tools keep changing. The discipline doesn't. Know what you're building, know why, and know exactly what you're asking the machine to do.

So the book is organized the way a cookbook organizes a kitchen, by what you're trying to make. You don't read it start to finish. You turn to the one thing you need today, a bedtime story, a budget, a market analysis, and follow the recipe.

The menu

26 recipes in six courses.

Appetizers

  • The Bedtime Story Generator
  • The Custom Coloring Book
  • The Choose Your Own Adventure Game
  • The Animal Fact Checker

Quick Meals

  • The Weekly Meal Plan and Macro Calculator
  • The Budget Optimizer
  • The Vacation Itinerary
  • The DIY Home Repair Guide

The Student Menu

  • The Socratic Tutor
  • The Concept Simplifier
  • The Debate Partner
  • The Citation Organizer

The Chef's Table

  • The Market Analyst
  • The Secure Copywriter
  • The Product Architect
  • The Client Onboarding Guide

Molecular Gastronomy

  • The Markdown Masterpiece
  • The Logic Solver
  • The Data Synthesizer
  • The System Prompt Builder

Second Helpings

  • The Journaling Companion
  • The Meditation Script Builder
  • The Resume Rebuilder
  • The Cover Letter Tailor
  • The Character Consistency Checker
  • The Query Letter Builder

What you get

  • The book as a PDF and an EPUB, 70 pages.
  • Three skill files, one each for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.
  • Every recipe with its exact prompt and the result it produced.

AI tools change quickly. The model names and features in the book are the ones available when I wrote it, so check each platform for its current options before you start a recipe.

Pick one thing you need today.

Start with the recipe that fits this week, and the rest of the kitchen will be there when you're hungry for the next one.

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