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The Recursive Grift: An Ouroboros-Shaped Guide Circling AI-Assisted Book Craft (Second Edition)

An Ouroboros-Shaped Guide Circling AI-Assisted Book Craft

Have you wondered about creating books with AI?

Well, An AI assisted in writing this book about writing books with AI.

A human (Ch Th Hall) prompted Claude for some text, then surprisingly took the advice[1] Claude gave. This resulted in the human struggling with the machine at every turn. These two narrators split the difference: the human asks the AI to cut twenty percent but the machine says it can only do eleven percent. The human then cuts the remaining nine percent by hand.[2]

The result reads like one man’s journey to humanize the machine publishing industry.[3] Mostly by subversions, inversions, and diversions. Having been told his whole life he’s too clever by half, Ch Th Hall doubles down.

This modest artisanal work won’t lie to you about expectations. There’s no inflated $10K/month passive income rubbish; no fake income screenshots.[4] This book won’t make you rich.[5]

If you’re here for the hustle, look elsewhere to indulge that fantasy.[6] If you’re here because the whole thing amused you, click that purchase button.

Side effects may include mild existential amusement and the sudden urge to publish your own ridiculous experiment.

The Recursive Grift is an ouroboros that quarrels with itself while chomping down on its own tail — a dragon hoarding beer money.

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Reading timeAbout ½ hour
Footnotes57

More from the grift

  1. Admittedly, rather generic advice.

  2. Before adding 17% more material.

  3. One footnote at a time.

  4. No income screenshots at all.

  5. It won’t even make Ch Th Hall rich.

  6. You’re still welcome to buy the book, of course. And one for a friend.

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