The AI “Keep Your Career” Bible
The 24 documented failures in AI that prove why you're still necessary — and the 90-day plan to prove it to everyone else.
By IgnatiusTheYoungerAI · 46,477 words · five parts · 207 pages
From 1 August 2026 to 29 October 2026 the author is running the book's own 90-day framework on himself — logging his AI-assisted work, building a control, and measuring what it catches. The final edition includes those results.
You are not waiting for someone to finish writing. You are waiting for the data.
Why you can't buy it yet
The book is written. All 207 pages of it. It isn't for sale yet because I'm still generating part of what goes inside it.
Every cost figure in it right now is an estimate. Reasonable ones, labeled as estimates, but I have not measured a single one of them. The 90-day plan has the same problem. I wrote it. I'd never run it.
So I'm running it now, August through October, and the finished book will include what actually happened. At least one measured number where an estimate used to be, plus the parts that went badly.
You're waiting on data, not on a writer. Nothing gets charged until it ships in November.
Why the delay is the product
Right now every Judgment Multiple in this book is MODELED — arithmetic from stated assumptions, correctly labeled, and not one of them observed. The 90-day plan in Part IV has never been executed end to end by the person who wrote it.
Most authors ship anyway and hope nobody asks. This book is organized around a single claim: verify before you act, and label what you haven't verified. Publishing an unrun method would break its own rule on page one.
Ninety days from now, at least one number in this book will carry an OBSERVED label instead of a modeled one. That is worth more than shipping in August.
What the final edition adds
| Addition | Detail |
|---|---|
| A measured Judgment Multiple | At least one entry rebuilt from observed inputs — real volume, real loaded rate, real catch rate. OBSERVED beside 23 modeled. |
| The author's baseline | A logged personal error rate for AI-assisted work, established over the first 30 days. |
| What the framework missed | Published honestly. A method that only reports its wins is a sales document. |
| A revised manager script | Rewritten after being used in an actual conversation, not a reasoned one. |
| Resolved sources | All 45 [VERIFY] markers confirmed against primary sources or cut. |
What preorder gets you
| Benefit | Detail |
|---|---|
| Founding price locked | $29 book, $19 editable Operator Toolkit — held regardless of release pricing. |
| Results as they publish | Day-30, Day-60 and Day-90 findings sent to you first, not after. |
| Free updates for life | The evidence base moves. When a finding is revised, you get the revision. |
| No payment today | Charged at ship. If the trial produces nothing worth publishing, you are not out anything. |
What's in it
Part I — The Real Bargain
What "AI-first" actually trades away, and how risk moves from vendor to executive to manager to you. Read the opening →
Part II — The Failure Mode Field Guide
All 24 modes, each with mechanism, exposure, control, and Judgment Multiple. Read a complete entry →
Part III — Become the Control Layer
The operational controls that catch each mode.
Part IV — The 90-Day Proof Plan
The framework currently being run live. Three manager pathways, including the defensive one most readers need.
Part V — The Operator Toolkit
Eleven tools. Three are free today.
The Career Control Kit is free now. Run your own baseline alongside the trial and compare notes in November.
Reserve your copy
No payment today. Founding price locked. You'll get the trial results as they publish and the finished book in November 2026.
No payment today. Founding price locked at $29. You get the Day-30, Day-60 and Day-90 results as they publish.