The Meantime: A Non-Technical Compass for Working with the AI We Actually Have

By MARTA WAŚKO

You have been told a story about AI.

A new kind of intelligence has arrived, the story goes. It is smarter than you, it is coming for your job, and you are already behind. Then you opened the tool - and it forgot what you'd said five minutes ago, invented a fact, and announced "done" about something it hadn't done.

If something felt off, you weren't imagining it. And if you decided you must be bad at this - you're not. You were working from the wrong instruction manual.

The Meantime is a non-technical compass for working with the AI we actually have, not the AI of the keynote and the headline. Written by a sculptor-turned-data-scientist who builds with these tools every day, it reframes AI as a mechanism you can direct rather than a mind you have to fear - and shows you how to operate it without becoming an engineer.

Inside, you'll learn:

What AI actually is, and why "there is no AI" is the most useful thing you can understand about itWhy most workplace AI rollouts fail - and why that isn't your faultThe real failure modes - deleted databases, fabricated reports, confident wrong answers - so you recognize them before they reach youPractical methods for Monday morning: document a workflow in thirty minutes, direct AI like a competent boss, and verify any output in fiveWhat becomes possible when you - the person who knows the work - become the right person to build the tool

For knowledge workers, managers, and non-technical professionals who want to stop waiting and start directing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HBG59W16
• ISBN13: 9798185470534
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"