Engineering Best Practices for the Agentic Developer (Paperback)

Paperback. You've shipped something with Cursor, Claude Code, or Replit, and a small voice in the back of your head is whispering that you're not sure it's safe yet. You're not wrong.The tools are remarkable, and there is an entire discipline sitting between "it works on my machine" and "a stranger just trusted me with their data." This book is that discipline. Not all of it, not the academic parts, just the ones that matter most when you're shipping software with the help of AI. It is written for builders who would rather learn the habits that make them faster and safer than be talked down to by a textbook.In these pages, you will learn how to write specs the AI can actually build against, set up the AGENTS.md file that quietly doubles every coding session, use Git and GitHub like someone who has done it before, keep your secrets out of your repo and your cloud bills out of four digits, write the smallest tests that catch the biggest bugs, automate quality with CI/CD, and find out when something breaks before your customers do.Each chapter closes with three things you can act on right away: what to do Monday morning, a short war story of what happens when the chapter's lesson is ignored, and a prompt template you can paste straight into your AI tool to apply the lesson on whatever you're working on right now. Critical Thinking prompts throughout invite you to apply each chapter to your own code, not someone else's.By the end, you will be the engineer in every AI coding session, the one your tools have been waiting for. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…