Neha Kapoor is a writer and technologist who has spent the last decade at the intersection of software engineering, education, and the practical adoption of new tools. Her early career was built in product engineering at companies large and small, where she watched first-hand how the gap between what new technology could do and what people actually used it for tended to be wider than the marketing suggested. That gap, and the question of how to close it for ordinary working professionals, is the subject she has been writing about ever since.Over the past several years, her work has focused specifically on artificial intelligence and how it lands in the day-to-day routines of people who do not write code for a living. She has worked with teams in healthcare, financial services, marketing, education, and the public sector, helping them move from cautious experimentation to durable practice. The approach in this book reflects what she has learned across those engagements: that the technology, while genuinely powerful, is rarely the bottleneck. The bottleneck is almost always the human discipline of using it well, and that discipline can be learned by anyone willing to invest the time.Her writing has a deliberately practical bent. She is sceptical of hype in either direction: the loud optimism that promises AI will solve everything, and the loud pessimism that insists it changes nothing meaningful. The honest position, in her view, sits in the middle. AI is a powerful new general-purpose technology that will reshape work over the next decade in ways that will surprise both its loudest proponents and its loudest critics. The readers who fare best will be the ones who engage with it carefully, calibrate their expectations against actual experience, and build their practice over years rather than chasing the headline of the week.Outside her professional work, she is a dedicated reader, an indifferent runner, and the proud keeper of a small collection of fountain pens that she has somehow convinced herself she is using more than she actually is. She lives in a city she does not name in her bios, with a partner who has read every draft of every book and a cat who has read none of them and seems unbothered.This is her first full-length book on artificial intelligence. She hopes you find it useful, and welcomes the conversation that any honest book ought to provoke