— until they are built.
A handbook for engineers who build real software with coding agents and refuse to give up the things that make software trustworthy. Written by hand, revised every month, free.
Three on-ramps, four phases, and one file that runs alongside all of them. Enter where your project stands — but the artefacts build on each other.
Rules are numbered by chapter, so the book can cite itself: b.1 is the first rule in Basics, i.4 the fourth in Implementation.
One-shot prompts make stunning demos. This book is about the other thing — software that keeps doing its job after the demo, built with agents rather than in spite of them.
Written by hand by Jan Kipping, after trying most of the wrong ways first. Revised as the tools change, which is roughly monthly.
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