Nik McFly builds with AI every day.

Nik McFly has been building on the internet since 2000. He organized McFly.Aero, a global flying-taxi community that grew to 100,000 members. He ran Hybrain, an AI agency that worked with 24 businesses across 33 countries, trained 1,500+ AI operators, and shipped 25+ AI integrations. He co-created an open-source AI-agent meme framework that hit 6,300 GitHub stars off a name nobody could say out loud. He co-founded an AI music company that has crossed 12 million streams.

His books take apart the black boxes everyone uses and nobody opens: The Complete AIO Playbook on AI search rankings, TikTok Automation Playbook on phone farms, Digital Dolls, Real Dollars on AI-generated model agencies, Vibe Patenting on novel IP for AI-built products, and The Polymarket Files — built on 1.9 billion trading records and the complete on-chain history of the world's largest prediction market. He gets inside, documents the mechanics, and writes it up so you can run it the same week you finish reading.

The Anti-AI Brain is the book that sits underneath all of them. Every other book in the corpus assumes you still have the cognitive tissue to ship. This book explains why that assumption is eroding — and what to do about it before the capacity you need to notice the loss is itself gone.

The first place I saw systems programming how people think was Virtual Metropolis — Efim Ostrovsky's project for a new digital state. Ostrovsky's doctrine laid out a theoretical base for the migration of intelligence: how narratives, interfaces, and infrastructures quietly restructure cognition at scale. I reference him explicitly in the book. ChatGPT is the same mechanism on a faster clock. Anti-AI Brain is what I wrote after watching that migration run through me, and through the teams I trained, for five years straight.

The instinct to look inside opaque systems didn't start with me. My grandfather was a Soviet intelligence officer, the liaison between Khrushchev and Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The family habit of operating inside opaque systems runs in the blood. AI is the newest opaque system. The question the book tries to answer is whether you operate it — or it operates you.