In 1997 I wrote my last line of code.

In 2026 I run a system that reads my email, preps my meetings, keeps my notes, and works while I sleep. I am not an engineer. I am an operations executive who decided to put his hands on the keyboard.

This is the record of that six months, and the path, in order, for anyone who wants the same thing.
It is a workbook, not a memoir. Twenty-six chapters, each one a story, a plain explanation, and a closing block that says do this in the next thirty minutes. Tokens, the terminal, agents: each is taught before it is used, in the language of a working manager.

By the last page you are not aware of AI. You are running something.