AgentSpek
A Beginner's Companion to the AI Frontier
Don't panic — just code with AI. A travel-size companion for anyone curious about stepping into the world of AI-assisted coding. Field notes from the edge of the AI frontier.
Available Chapters
Dive into the journey. Each chapter builds on the last, exploring the landscape of AI-assisted development.
Chapter 1: Awakening to the AI Frontier
I opened seventeen browser tabs, each one a different AI coding tool promising to revolutionize development. This wasn't about money—it was about the overwhelming paradox of choice in a landscape that changes daily.
Chapter 2: The Economics of Intelligence
draftHow do you measure the ROI of a tool that makes your team think better? This isn't about faster compilers or better CI/CD pipelines—it's about cognitive amplification that has strange, non-linear returns.
AgentSpek
A Beginner’s Companion to the AI Frontier
Don’t panic — just code with AI
AgentSpek is a travel-size companion for anyone curious about what it’s really like to step into the world of AI-assisted coding. Drawing from personal experiences with tools like VS Code and Claude, this book blends stories, lessons, and practical prompts into a guide you can actually carry on vacation, read on a plane, or flip open between coffee breaks.
Think of it as field notes from the edge of the AI frontier — part memoir, part beginner’s guide, part workbook.
About This Book
We’re not just getting new tools, we’re becoming something new. This book follows a journey from overwhelmed developer to conductor of intelligence, exploring what it means to collaborate with AI rather than just use it.
The Journey:
- Part I: Orientation (Ch 1-3) - The call to adventure: git for the agentic age, economics of intelligence
- Part II: Spectrum (Ch 4-7) - Four modes of AI collaboration from autocomplete to autonomous
- Part III: Practice (Ch 8-10) - Reimagining development loops, quality, and orchestrating multiple AI models
- Part IV: Edges (Ch 11-13) - Social machines, knowledge spirals, and the value equation
- Part V: Philosophy (Ch 14-16) - Weight of creation, the great unleashing, and becoming
- Part VI: Horizon (Ch 17-18) - Community and your agentic journey
What Makes AgentSpek Different
- 🎒 Travel-Size Companion: ~250 pages, readable on vacation
- 📖 Story-Driven: Personal experiences, not dry technical manual
- 🎨 Illustrated: Each chapter with custom artwork
- 🤝 AI-Collaborative: Written with AI, about working with AI
- 🌟 Beginner-Friendly: No prerequisites, just curiosity
Who This Book Is For
- Complete Beginners wondering what AI coding looks like
- Seasoned Engineers dipping a toe into AI tools
- Curious Developers ready to explore human+AI collaboration
- Anyone interested in the future of creative work with machines
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