Oh, it was a hassle for sure! It kept rewriting the sentences I fed to it, trying to style them properly and it kept throwing out words and changing the rebellious tone I wanted in the book. It was worth it for some pieces, they really became more punchy and to the point, but for others looking back at it - I could have just saved the time and just published it as-is. So it's a medium success for me.
I'm sorry I was not familiar with your game sir... Street Coder was never on my radar but right now it is the first thing I'm buying when the learning budget at my company resets in a couple of days!
You are not crazy, you make a valid point. But the truth is - the author (me) - was just lazy to upload it to something else and just wanted it published. I promise you I'm not trying to hack you :)
GPT-5.2 was not out at the time this was finished unfortunately...but, GPT-4o mini was used throughout in order to make the points in the book "hit" a little better. See - I'm not a native english speaker, so making something "sound" the way it sounds in my native language is hard, so I felt AI could help reasonably well with that in a book that is supposed to feel very opinionated.
But if you are insinuating AI made all this up on it's own, I have to disappoint you. My points and my thoughts are my own and I am a very human.
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