Credits

The chapter list was constructed by surveying publicly available guidance on AI-assisted research workflows, including documentation for large language model tools used in literature review, coding, writing, and reproducibility, and adopting the topics common to the majority of them.

Cover artwork generated procedurally by the R script at images/build-cover.R. Watercolor palette: deep violet through amethyst to pale mist, anchored on a brand violet #6a4c93. Typography: Avenir family (Apple system font); body text in Source Serif 4.

The three ambiance photographs in each day chapter (an opening image, a mid-lecture image, and a worked-example image) are AI-generated; see the Colophon for the disclosure and images/README.md for every image’s full generation prompt.

The epigraphs opening each day chapter are drawn from published primary sources (an academic paper, a proverb, a technical report, a memoir on writing, and a commencement address), cited in full in the References; none was written or paraphrased by an AI tool, in keeping with this book’s own subject matter.