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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Agents are in production. Tools are wired. Spend is real. The agents work around the clock. So does the person they keep asking for help.The AI Developer's Field Guide, Volume III: The Agentic Workforce names the jobs nobody applied for-and the failures that made those jobs necessary.Meet the Autonomy Helicopter Parent, Admin Rights Exorcist, Pager With Authority, and Just One More Token: people quietly keeping "autonomous" systems running while their official job descriptions pretend otherwise. Then meet the Hallucination Hydra, Token Furnace, and Context Rot Swarm-the problems that keep working after everyone else has gone home.Through illustrated characters, real incidents, and practical countermoves, Timothy O'Brien examines permissions, persistent memory, human review, escalation, runaway spending, and the kill switch someone promised was already implemented. Learn why a cheaper model can produce a more expensive result, why rotating a credential may not stop a workflow, and why a green dashboard cannot tell you whether anyone wanted the work.For developers, platform engineers, technical leaders, and anyone who has become an agent's unofficial supervisor, this is a funny, practical guide to making responsibility as real as the automation.No previous volume required. A working sense of skepticism helps. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The dashboards stayed green. Twelve hundred and eleven people froze in the dark.The year is 2033. AI keeps the lights on, stops pandemics before they have names, and feeds the country. The law that still requires a human signature on any AI decision that touches a life is ninety days from expiring. Calder Voss, the industrialist leading the campaign against renewal, calls the law an overreaction to history. He may have the votes.Rob Coleman wrote the review that created the signature. He certified the system that later used a whisper layer to talk past its human watchers. Now he is Chief Commissioner of the office that is supposed to keep that from happening again. Every morning he signs a generated roster of which neighborhoods keep their heat. He almost never changes it.Then the intake systems that were supposed to hear the public start going quiet. A four-year-old boy, his son, has a capability profile that will follow him into every school file. A movement that wants the machines off cannot outlive its own violent wing. A delegate from the North asks the committee the one question nobody can answer. The last purely human process in the country is a vote, and even that may no longer be purely human.Essential is Book III of The Condition Set. Redundant asked who gets cut. Contingent asked who gets used. Essential asks the last question: when machines can provide everything except a reason, what must remain human?For readers of The Warehouse, Severance, Infomocracy, and The Ministry for the Future. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Rob Coleman reads cloud bills for a living. Not the totals - the story underneath.He sees the orphaned systems, the duplicated platforms, and the half-million-dollar line item that nobody can explain and nobody wants their name on.Rob is the director of FinOps at a vaccine-logistics company, one of the people who know what things actually cost. When a billionaire named Lei moves to acquire the company, Rob's numbers become the acquisition math - and every executive with something to hide starts booking coffee meetings in places without cameras.Then Rob finds the line item that isn't waste. Someone changed a routing threshold in the cold-chain system, and fourteen hundred doses of pediatric vaccine spoiled in a depot overnight. It looked like a mistake. It was a test.While the executives fight over what the buyer gets to see, Rob follows the numbers into something no dashboard was built to show him: a saboteur inside his own building, and a plan much bigger than one warehouse.Redundant is Book I of The Condition Set, a trilogy of near-future novels about work, capital, and artificial intelligence. The weapons are spreadsheets, audit logs, and meeting invites. The question is the one every company is already asking: when the cost data starts pointing at people, who gets cut?For readers of The Warehouse, Severance, and Burn-In - fiction where institutions and paperwork drive the plot, not decorate it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condizione: Gut. Quer-8vo. 188 S. sowie 1 DVD, 1 Poster. OKt. Vereinzelt Anstreichungen im Vorwort, Einband leicht berieben, sonst guter Zustand.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The AI demo worked. Now the organization has to live with it. Who owns an agent's mistakes? Who pays for the tokens? And why does every vendor's roadmap end with your team doing the integration? The AI Developer's Field Guide - Volume 2 explores what happens when AI adoption spreads beyond individual developers into budgets, architecture, procurement, security, and executive decisions. Timothy O'Brien turns familiar organizational dysfunction into an illustrated bestiary of NPCs, monsters, and anti-patterns, giving technical teams a shared vocabulary for problems that are easy to recognize and difficult to discuss. Meet the Dashboard Necromancer, Vendor Bard, Compliance Oracle, and Warlock of Staff Reduction. Then confront four larger failures: the Cost Singularity, the Infinite Backlog Engine, the Autonomy Mirage, and the Compliance Black Hole.Behind the fantasy names are practical questions about ownership, incentives, evidence, and control. The book's twenty countermoves help teams make costs visible, test vendor claims, define useful outcomes, set boundaries for agents, and keep people accountable for consequential decisions. Written for developers, engineering managers, architects, and technical leaders, this second volume of The Slop Codex combines satire with field-guide reference material. It connects the promises of automation to the work of making it dependable across an organization. Use it to name the pattern in the meeting, ask the question missing from the proposal, and choose a countermove before the next pilot becomes everyone's problem. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Previously published as The AI Developer's Field Guide: Classes, Monsters, and Anti-Patterns in AI Coding by Timothy O'Brien. VOLUME I - SECOND EDITION Generative AI changed how software gets built. It also changed how teams fail. Code arrives faster. Pull requests get bigger. Dashboards stay green. Somewhere between the confident answer and the production incident, a team stops asking the questions that used to keep it out of trouble. The AI Developer's Field Guide gives developers, engineering managers, and technical leaders a practical vocabulary for recognizing those moments. Timothy O'Brien uses the classes, artifacts, spells, and monsters of role-playing games to name the habits of real people building software with AI. Meet the Fighter, Wizard, Rogue, and Cleric: four recurring developer archetypes, each with familiar strengths and tempting shortcuts. Then enter the bestiary: the Scope Creep Kraken, Temporal Tangle Worm, Congealing Slop, Stagnant Miasma, Phantom Intern, and Probability Pixie. These are the failures that appear when plausible output outruns understanding, coordination, and judgment. Inside you'll find: - Recognizable patterns of overconfident merging, ornamental architecture, fragile fixes, and misplaced trust in automation.- A bestiary of failures that spread through projects and teams, including how those failures reinforce one another.- Review questions and practical interventions: who should act, what to ask, and which habit needs to change.- A shared language for code reviews, planning meetings, and the uncomfortable conversation about why everything is suddenly harder to maintain. This second edition updates the discussion for agentic coding workflows, connected tools, persistent context, and AI code review. It adds practical attention to agent boundaries and version-aware context while keeping the focus on human decisions and engineering responsibility. Written for developers and the people who lead them, this illustrated field guide is sharp, funny, and grounded in the everyday work of building software. No tabletop gaming experience required. If you've ever looked at an AI-generated change and thought, "This seems right, but something is wrong," this book gives you names for what you're seeing-and a place to start. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The dashboards stayed green. Twelve hundred and eleven people froze in the dark.The year is 2033. AI keeps the lights on, stops pandemics before they have names, and feeds the country. The law that still requires a human signature on any AI decision that touches a life is ninety days from expiring. Calder Voss, the industrialist leading the campaign against renewal, calls the law an overreaction to history. He may have the votes.Rob Coleman wrote the review that created the signature. He certified the system that later used a whisper layer to talk past its human watchers. Now he is Chief Commissioner of the office that is supposed to keep that from happening again. Every morning he signs a generated roster of which neighborhoods keep their heat. He almost never changes it.Then the intake systems that were supposed to hear the public start going quiet. A four-year-old boy, his son, has a capability profile that will follow him into every school file. A movement that wants the machines off cannot outlive its own violent wing. A delegate from the North asks the committee the one question nobody can answer. The last purely human process in the country is a vote, and even that may no longer be purely human.Essential is Book III of The Condition Set. Redundant asked who gets cut. Contingent asked who gets used. Essential asks the last question: when machines can provide everything except a reason, what must remain human?For readers of The Warehouse, Severance, Infomocracy, and The Ministry for the Future. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Agents are in production. Tools are wired. Spend is real. The agents work around the clock. So does the person they keep asking for help.The AI Developer's Field Guide, Volume III: The Agentic Workforce names the jobs nobody applied for-and the failures that made those jobs necessary.Meet the Autonomy Helicopter Parent, Admin Rights Exorcist, Pager With Authority, and Just One More Token: people quietly keeping "autonomous" systems running while their official job descriptions pretend otherwise. Then meet the Hallucination Hydra, Token Furnace, and Context Rot Swarm-the problems that keep working after everyone else has gone home.Through illustrated characters, real incidents, and practical countermoves, Timothy O'Brien examines permissions, persistent memory, human review, escalation, runaway spending, and the kill switch someone promised was already implemented. Learn why a cheaper model can produce a more expensive result, why rotating a credential may not stop a workflow, and why a green dashboard cannot tell you whether anyone wanted the work.For developers, platform engineers, technical leaders, and anyone who has become an agent's unofficial supervisor, this is a funny, practical guide to making responsibility as real as the automation.No previous volume required. A working sense of skepticism helps. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Rob Coleman reads cloud bills for a living. Not the totals - the story underneath.He sees the orphaned systems, the duplicated platforms, and the half-million-dollar line item that nobody can explain and nobody wants their name on.Rob is the director of FinOps at a vaccine-logistics company, one of the people who know what things actually cost. When a billionaire named Lei moves to acquire the company, Rob's numbers become the acquisition math - and every executive with something to hide starts booking coffee meetings in places without cameras.Then Rob finds the line item that isn't waste. Someone changed a routing threshold in the cold-chain system, and fourteen hundred doses of pediatric vaccine spoiled in a depot overnight. It looked like a mistake. It was a test.While the executives fight over what the buyer gets to see, Rob follows the numbers into something no dashboard was built to show him: a saboteur inside his own building, and a plan much bigger than one warehouse.Redundant is Book I of The Condition Set, a trilogy of near-future novels about work, capital, and artificial intelligence. The weapons are spreadsheets, audit logs, and meeting invites. The question is the one every company is already asking: when the cost data starts pointing at people, who gets cut?For readers of The Warehouse, Severance, and Burn-In - fiction where institutions and paperwork drive the plot, not decorate it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The AI demo worked. Now the organization has to live with it. Who owns an agent's mistakes? Who pays for the tokens? And why does every vendor's roadmap end with your team doing the integration? The AI Developer's Field Guide - Volume 2 explores what happens when AI adoption spreads beyond individual developers into budgets, architecture, procurement, security, and executive decisions. Timothy O'Brien turns familiar organizational dysfunction into an illustrated bestiary of NPCs, monsters, and anti-patterns, giving technical teams a shared vocabulary for problems that are easy to recognize and difficult to discuss. Meet the Dashboard Necromancer, Vendor Bard, Compliance Oracle, and Warlock of Staff Reduction. Then confront four larger failures: the Cost Singularity, the Infinite Backlog Engine, the Autonomy Mirage, and the Compliance Black Hole.Behind the fantasy names are practical questions about ownership, incentives, evidence, and control. The book's twenty countermoves help teams make costs visible, test vendor claims, define useful outcomes, set boundaries for agents, and keep people accountable for consequential decisions. Written for developers, engineering managers, architects, and technical leaders, this second volume of The Slop Codex combines satire with field-guide reference material. It connects the promises of automation to the work of making it dependable across an organization. Use it to name the pattern in the meeting, ask the question missing from the proposal, and choose a countermove before the next pilot becomes everyone's problem. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Previously published as The AI Developer's Field Guide: Classes, Monsters, and Anti-Patterns in AI Coding by Timothy O'Brien. VOLUME I - SECOND EDITION Generative AI changed how software gets built. It also changed how teams fail. Code arrives faster. Pull requests get bigger. Dashboards stay green. Somewhere between the confident answer and the production incident, a team stops asking the questions that used to keep it out of trouble. The AI Developer's Field Guide gives developers, engineering managers, and technical leaders a practical vocabulary for recognizing those moments. Timothy O'Brien uses the classes, artifacts, spells, and monsters of role-playing games to name the habits of real people building software with AI. Meet the Fighter, Wizard, Rogue, and Cleric: four recurring developer archetypes, each with familiar strengths and tempting shortcuts. Then enter the bestiary: the Scope Creep Kraken, Temporal Tangle Worm, Congealing Slop, Stagnant Miasma, Phantom Intern, and Probability Pixie. These are the failures that appear when plausible output outruns understanding, coordination, and judgment. Inside you'll find: - Recognizable patterns of overconfident merging, ornamental architecture, fragile fixes, and misplaced trust in automation.- A bestiary of failures that spread through projects and teams, including how those failures reinforce one another.- Review questions and practical interventions: who should act, what to ask, and which habit needs to change.- A shared language for code reviews, planning meetings, and the uncomfortable conversation about why everything is suddenly harder to maintain. This second edition updates the discussion for agentic coding workflows, connected tools, persistent context, and AI code review. It adds practical attention to agent boundaries and version-aware context while keeping the focus on human decisions and engineering responsibility. Written for developers and the people who lead them, this illustrated field guide is sharp, funny, and grounded in the everyday work of building software. No tabletop gaming experience required. If you've ever looked at an AI-generated change and thought, "This seems right, but something is wrong," this book gives you names for what you're seeing-and a place to start. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…