AI Assembly Language
You did not make the machine smarter. You made the wrong answers unavailable.
In 1981 I learned to program a 6502 processor in assembly language. The 6502 never pretended to understand me, so I never developed the habit of hoping. I developed the habit of being precise.
A language model is a far more capable processor, and it speaks English back to you. It sounds like it understands, so most people never learn precision. This book teaches it, as the companion to Earthgrid.ai, the authoring system I built.
Train yourself, make the turn, then go further.
- Part One
Train yourself to write better
Use Earthgrid.ai to train yourself to write better, get feedback, and expand your brain. Write the program, read what comes back, and fix the program instead of arguing with the output.
- Part Two
The turn
The turning point came when I stopped trying to build and improve Earthgrid.ai and used it to train myself to work better with every AI. Part Two is that transition, and what happened when I started using Earthgrid.ai together with Claude.
- Part Three
Everything you can do
My best-kept secrets for optimizing prompts. This is the advanced material, and it keeps growing.
Swipe or use the arrows.
The methods in the book.
The containment field
Triple quotation marks that tell the machine your pasted material is material, not orders. It costs six characters.
The prompt stack
Header, data, reference, logic, execution. Anthropic's own guidance reports up to 30 percent better responses on complex, multi-document inputs when the query comes last.
The five to one law
Your input should be at least five times the length of the output you want. You collect those words. You do not write them.
Macros
An Earthgrid-scripted prompt you call by name at any point in a session. My friends call it Vik in a box. The library is past a hundred.
Characters
Gated identities that answer as a person or a point of view, and decline as one. CatGPT was the first, built on Thanksgiving Day 2025.
Humanization
A last pass that rewrites finished work into plain English in your own voice. Refine the work first, and press the droplet last.
Read the first chapter now.
The front matter and Chapter One are open on this site. The rest of the book will open with a free Earthgrid account.