I Found the Bug!
What AI Gets Right, What It Gets Wrong, and What We Can Do About It
She can play mah jong all day.
Ask her to read four lines of computer instructions? Absolutely not.
Brian Demsey is 83. For thirty months he has worked with Claude, an artificial intelligence, nearly every day: building apps, publishing websites, and fixing his own computers. He kept the transcripts.
This is what he found. A machine that always has an answer, even when it is wrong. A logo that took an hour because the AI insisted it could not see a web page. Email that kept going to the wrong mailbox. And the plain rules that finally made the machines reliable.
The book starts at middle C and climbs, chapter by chapter, to how Brian trains AI today. Go as far as you wish. Every chapter ends with a funny story.
First draft, October 2026. PDF, 206 pages.
Contents
- Introduction10
- A Snapshot11
- Holding Your Hand13
- 1. Meet Debbie and Dave18
- 2. It Always Has an Answer33
- 3. Training Claude50
- 4. Doing It the Hard Way72
- 5. The Wrong Mailbox87
- 6. The Web Page103
- 7. Behind the Website119
- 8. The Numbers and the Data135
- 9. Machines Working Together152
- 10. How I Train the Machines166
- Vexing197
- Afterword: Invite the Pianist Over198
- Looking Back203
- About the Author204
Source Material
The Instructions I Have Given. Every rule, correction and standing order found in the Training and Working Guides folders, compiled October 4, 2026. The record behind the book.
PDF, 120 pages.