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By Adam Green.
Syntomy Publishing, July 2026.
At some point this week, you almost certainly trusted a page that no one checked.
It read well. That is the problem. For most of working history, a clean, fluent page was a fair sign of a careful mind, because the finish was expensive. AI has made it free. A machine can now produce a confident, well-ordered page on a subject it has not understood, citing sources that do not say what it claims. The failure leaves no mark where you would look for it.
So how do you stand behind work you did not write alone?
The answer is older than the machine. A blade is not strong despite the fire. It is strong because of it.
Tempered turns that idea into a working method. Use AI at full speed. Run the handful of checks that find the failures that matter. Build a practice that outlasts the tools. And put your name on the result, knowing what you are standing behind.
What's in the book
Part I gives you the context. It shows how work made with AI goes wrong, and why a polished page no longer tells you whether the work is robust.
Part II is the practice. It starts with the machine itself, then the craft of producing good work with it, and it builds in the checking that earns its place.
Prologue.
Part I, the argument.
The Two Clocks.
The Broken Link.
The End of the Loop.
The Council of Voices.
The Four Calls.
The Amplifier, or the Leveller.
The Reputation Burn.
Carrying the Edge.
When the Work Runs Itself.
Close: Tempered by use.
Part II, producing well, and standing behind it.
Know the machine.
Prompting that stands up.
Working sessions, and the files behind them.
Tools, models, and working with the system.
Designing for quality.
Reviewing a contract.
Summarising a set of documents.
Writing a more complex piece.
The frontier, and where this is going.
What you carry forward.
Where to buy it
Other ebook stores. Apple Books · Kobo · More stores (Books2Read)
Paperback. Amazon UK · Waterstones · Amazon US · Direct from the printer (IngramSpark)
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