# The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow

3 Hacker News commenters recommended The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended by a few readers as an excellent read on AI and work, though one critic found it conventional anti-AI commentary.

## Why people recommend it

- Excellent, worth reading by everyone (1 comments): "Cory Doctorow's excellent The Reverse Centaur's Guide To Life After AI , which everyone should read" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260866))
- Strong take on AI's effects (2 comments): "Cory Doctorow's book The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI talks more about this." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49168665)) "it is of course an excellent read" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166710))

## What people warn about

- Conventional anti-AI wisdom, not his best (2 comments): "It's not one of his better works. It's all conventional anti-AI wisdom." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876303)) "It's all conventional anti-AI wisdom." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48875489))
- Seen as advertisement (1 comments): "not worth reading as its just advertisement" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182158))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cuckoo-s-egg.md): 40 recommend
- [Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amusing-ourselves-to-death.md): 36 recommend
- [The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt](https://hackerapproved.com/p/anxious-generation.md): 24 recommend
- [Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bullshit-jobs.md): 20 recommend
- [Enshittification by Cory Doctorow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/enshittification.md): 19 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/037462156X?tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)
- [Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/a/130825/9780374621568) (affiliate link)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow", https://hackerapproved.com/p/reverse-centaur-s-guide-to-life-after-ai/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).