Lisanne Bainbridge

Foreword

By Edo Segal

You On AI was written out of the need to understand what was happening to builders, to their teams, to the world that technologists had spent three decades shaping. The book was an attempt to map the territory as the ground shifted beneath the feet of everyone working at the frontier.

But maps are not territory. They are representations, limited by the cartographer's position and purpose. You On AI maps from the builder's perspective, from inside the exhilaration and vertigo of working with AI at the frontier. From that vantage, the river and the beaver's dam are visible. The ascending friction is palpable. The productivity gains and the compulsive pull of the tools can be measured.

What the builder's vantage could not see clearly was the deeper pattern