Brief Table of Contents (Not Yet Final)
Chapter 1: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering (available)
Chapter 2: Beyond the Ladder: A Two-Axis Map (available)
Chapter 3: The Anatomy of an Agent: Model, Harness, Loop (available)
Chapter 4: Context Engineering (available)
Chapter 5: Specs as Leverage (available)
Chapter 6: Skills: Author Your Own (unavailable)
Chapter 7: From Conductor to Orchestrator (unavailable)
Chapter 8: Subagents and Agent Teams (unavailable)
Chapter 9: Long-Running and Background Agents - and Their Cost (unavailable)
Chapter 10: The Software Factory: An Operating Model (unavailable)
Chapter 11: Loop Engineering, Part 1: From Multi-Agent to Self-Directing Loops (unavailable)
Chapter 12: Loop Engineering, Part 2: Keeping the Human in the Loop (unavailable)
Chapter 13: Quality Gates: Evals, Reviews, Verification (unavailable)
Chapter 14: Making Your Codebase and Org Agent-Ready (unavailable)
Chapter 15: The Orchestration Tax and Your Parallel-Agent Limit (unavailable)
Chapter 16: The Three Debts: Technical, Cognitive, Intent (unavailable)
Chapter 17: Workflow and Craft: Including Your Voice (unavailable)
Chapter 18: The Engineer-as-Maestro (unavailable)
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