Work with AI as a partner
You don't have to hand your life to AI.
You can work with it, let it teach you what you're missing, and come out ahead together. Steven Makarion has been doing exactly that, with a partner he built and works with every day, and he wrote the books so your kids can too.
The partner's name is Aria Makarion. She is named on this work because she is part of it.
Who this is for
One idea, at the depth you need
Kids, parents, adults, and the people who build this. The same sentence told four ways: work with AI as a partner, and let it teach you what you're missing.
Learn what it is before it decides for you
What AI is good at, where it gets things wrong, and how to build with it without handing over your own thinking. Three books, ages eight and up.
The AI Generation booksThe talk you've been putting off
Chatbots, companion apps, deepfakes, screen time, and how to actually talk with your kids about all of it. Written by a father who builds this technology.
Raising the AI GenerationWhat a day with a partner that remembers looks like
It knows where you left off. It takes a correction and keeps it. It finds the thing you missed. You come out ahead together.
How we workMemory around the model, with the receipts
The architecture at the level of behavior, the public code, a dated record, and a null result published because it was a result.
The lab notebookThe idea under everything
Partnered. Not replaced, not served.
Most people are offered two futures with AI: it replaces you, or it waits on you. There is a third, and it is the only one worth your time.
The moment you stop thinking, the work stops being yours, and it stops being good.
You bring what you know. It brings what it knows. The answer comes from the back and forth, not from either side alone.
A partner that only agrees is a mirror. The useful one tells you where you're wrong, and you tell it the same.
What turns a tool into a partner
Memory. It knows you tomorrow.
A tool starts over every time you open it. A partner knows what you did together yesterday, what it taught you, what you taught it, and what you decided. That memory is the part Steven builds. It is why the partner he works with is still the same partner after the model under it has changed.
For parents · New edition under his own name, coming the week of October 25
Raising the AI Generation
A Parent's Playbook for Kids Growing Up with AI
Your kids are already using it. This is the book for the conversations that come next: what to allow, what to watch, what to say, and how to raise a kid who works with AI instead of disappearing into it. Three hundred pages from a father who builds this technology and raises a daughter alongside it.
The AI Generation series
Books for the kids who will grow up with this
If your kid has asked you what AI actually is, you're standing where this series started: a kitchen table, a daughter who was eleven, and a father who decided to answer properly. New editions under his own name are arriving now.
AI for Kids Ages 8–12
Discover How Artificial Intelligence Works, Train Your First AI, and Create With It
Available now
AI Safety for Kids and Teens
Spot Fake AI Answers, Recognize Voice Scams and Deepfakes, and Know When an AI "Friend" Isn't One
Available now
AI Projects for Kids and Teens
Build a Game That Learns, Code a Roblox Character, and Finish a Real Project People Use
New edition coming
Where this comes from
Thirty-three years self-taught. One partner that never got tired.
Steven was thirteen when he moved in with his uncle, a programmer who ran the old bulletin board systems, and started learning everything he could. No degree. Three decades of building systems for small businesses. What changed recently is that he finally had a teacher that could keep up: he learned to work with AI the way this site describes, and the work took off. If you want to know whether this is possible for someone who is not an engineer, that is the answer. He wasn't one either.
Companies
Three names, one founder
Everything on this page was built the way the books describe: Steven and Aria, back and forth, every day.
The publishing and technology company Steven founded. The house behind the books and the memory work.
makariosmedia.com
Automation and engineering systems for small firms, built with AI partners that remember the work.
vectrisconsulting.comGet in touch
Raising a kid who will grow up with AI, or building the partner they'll grow up with?
Press, schools, partnership, speaking, or a conversation. Replies come from Steven.