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Book 1 of The Old Dog Guides · First edition
AI doesn’t tell you when it’s wrong. Your experience is how you catch it.
The Old Dog Guide to Claude: Amplify Decades of Expertise with AI: Prompting, Projects, Skills, and Agents.
This book is for the professional in the second half of a career who suspects the moment has passed them by. It teaches the shortest honest route from a first conversation to handing over real work and getting a finished file back.
Ebook and paperback on Amazon.com. The ebook is also free to read with Kindle Unlimited.
- Write prompts that carry your context, so the answer fits your work.
- Set the model, the effort and the thinking, and know when more is worth paying for.
- Catch a fluent, confident, wrong answer before anyone else sees it.
- Build Projects and Skills, then hand Claude a whole task and review what comes back.
Every claim about Claude was checked against Anthropic’s live documentation at the time of writing. A chapter at the back, How This Book Was Made, says plainly how it was made with Claude.
Written by someone who started with AI badly.
Brad Bowyer has spent more than thirty-five years working with new technology, from theatre lighting and broadcast to drones and offshore robotics. He trained more than two thousand broadcast professionals as a master instructor, and today he is a Senior Robotics Operations Engineer who uses AI every working day. He wrote this book for the person he was a year ago.
OLD DOG AI is where experienced professionals discover that their decades of expertise are their biggest AI advantage, not their liability.
Something in the book didn’t work for you? I’d rather hear why. Write to me at bradb@olddogai.ai.