Start with a worked case#
A corrected answer can leave an earlier mistake in your spreadsheet, presentation, or draft email. The next task is to find what depends on it and decide which work can be used.
In the worked teaching case, a consultant compares two fictional service proposals. AI turns a one-time setup charge into a monthly expense and recommends the wrong proposal on cost. The summary is corrected, but three unsent drafts still carry the earlier result.
The case supplies the terms and arithmetic, then traces the spreadsheet, slide, and email that need attention. You can inspect the repair yourself.
Read the complete teaching case.
Use a worksheet beside your next repair#
The free worksheet gives you a place to record one finding, the known affected work, the checks performed, and the next decision. Use as much detail as the task requires.
Download the free worksheet. No email address is required.
The case uses invented records whose calculations you can inspect. The worksheet helps organize your response. Decisions depend on the evidence and the people responsible for the work.
The book's question#
When an AI system makes a mistake, correcting the immediate answer may leave a larger question unresolved: what else in the work was affected, and is it reasonable to continue? When AI Gets It Wrong examines the relationship between containing mistakes, repairing the work, and deciding what should happen next.
Its subtitle is Containing Mistakes, Repairing the Work, and Deciding When to Continue.
Repair and continuation#
This standalone WinMedia publication focuses on the human judgment involved in responding to AI errors. It offers a publication-level inquiry into repair and continuation without promising that AI mistakes can be eliminated.
For an adjacent inquiry into instructions, delegation, and accountable action, see Tendencies, Not Rules, also a standalone publication.
Publication and access#
Written by Lynn Walker and published by WinMedia as a Human Edition. The Kindle eBook was reported available in the week ending October 18, 2026; an exact publication day has not been confirmed.
Paperback edition#
The paperback was confirmed live in KDP on October 29, 2026 (submitted October 27; exact first-live date unverified). ISBN: 9798165864254.