The author

Jason Santiago

Jason Santiago runs commercial construction projects for a living. Before he ever wrote a line of code, he ran jobs where the concrete was real and a wrong answer cost schedule, money, or worse. He still works in the field today.

He is a Navy veteran with no formal computer science credentials. He taught himself full-stack development and has built dozens of production applications, hundreds of thousands of lines of working code, as founder of Santiago Innovations. He never studied prompt engineering. He studied how to make answers prove themselves, because on a jobsite that is the only kind of answer worth having.

That standard became the Council Method: multiple AI models investigating independently, claims forced to name their sources, agreement never mistaken for verification, and a final verdict a human signs. He built and tested the method on real projects before writing a word about it. The book got made with the method the book describes.

Reality is the only honest reviewer I have ever had.

Let the AI Be Smart

The books

Jason lives in Genesee, Idaho with his family. The book is dedicated to Amyra, Zeberiah, Josiah, Isaiah, and Luna, and to everyone with a journal full of ghosts.