{
  "id": 8892395,
  "title": "I wrote 1,100 pages of notes over five years, and an AI convinced me to turn them into seven books.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/i-wrote-1-100-pages-of-notes-over-five-years-and-an-ai-convinced-me",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-21T09:36:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/lularible/i-wrote-1100-pages-of-notes-over-five-years-an-ai-convinced-me-to-turn-them-into-seven-books-13j7"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Over the course of five years, the author meticulously documented their technical experiences in over 1,100 pages of notes. These notes covered a wide range of topics, from basic Linux commands to advanced hardware security. The author's writing was primarily driven by work-related projects, as they documented their investigations and fixes for various issues they encountered while working on different modules, ranging from SoC to MCU, from Linux to QNX to AUTOSAR, and from time synchronization to hardware security.\n\nOne day, the author decided to feed these extensive notes into an AI to gauge their technical proficiency. The AI provided a detailed analysis, praising the author's deep understanding of the subject matter, from application layer to hardware layer, and the author's ability to trace problems from symptoms to root causes. The AI also suggested that organizing these notes into books could help others understand complex technical concepts more easily.\n\nThe author took this feedback to heart and spent several months reorganizing the notes into seven separate books, each focusing on a specific topic. The books were rewritten from scratch, incorporating proof from the author's own code, protocol standards, open source code, and their own understanding. The process involved rewriting chapters multiple times, refining the writing, and ensuring that each book flowed logically and was easy to understand.\n\nIn total, the author now has seven books that cover a broad spectrum of automotive electronics, from the foundational concepts like semiconductor physics and CPU pipelines to specific topics like time synchronization, diagnostics, hardware security, and automotive embedded software engineering. These books are open source on GitHub and are designed to be accessible to anyone interested in learning about how computers work, from the most basic principles to the most complex systems.",
  "summary": "Five years ago, when I started writing technical notes, I had no intention of writing books. At first it was just personal interest. I'd summarize things I'd built and post them online. Back then I was messing around with Linux basics: ls , more , that sort of thing. I was in grad school, so most of what I wrote was study notes. But the habit stuck. Later I interned at a few companies. My program…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}