AI-Assisted Development. The Complete Playbook: How to Ship Faster Without Losing Your Soul Kindle Edition

Stop prompting blindly. Start engineering with AI.Most AI coding guides are written by people who don't actually ship software.They promise you "10x productivity" if you just paste your code into a chatbot. They show you trivial "Hello World" examples that work perfectly, but they leave you stranded when you're staring at a 14,000-line legacy file, a weird deadline, and an AI that just hallucinated a library that doesn't exist.This is not another hype book.AI-Assisted Developmentis the missing manual for the senior engineer who is tired of the noise. It’s for the developer who knows that AI is powerful but dangerous. It’s for the team lead who is terrified that their junior devs are copying security vulnerabilities straight into production.Written by an engineer who has actually wrestled these tools in the wild, this book moves you past the "vibe coding" phase and into professional, reliable AI-assisted engineering.You won’t find:Breathless predictions about the Singularity.Generic "write me a function" prompts you could figure out yourself.Abstract theory about how LLMs work.You WILL find:The "Never-Paste List": A definitive security checklist of what can (and absolutely cannot) go into a prompt.Legacy Code Archaeology: A step-by-step workflow for using AI to understand codebases you didn't write—without breaking them.The "Context Cliff": Exact strategies to handle massive files that blow up your context window.Hallucination defense: How to catch AI lying to you before you commit the code.The "Playbook in a Box": Battle-tested templates for PRs, design docs, and incident reviews that you can use tomorrow.This guide treats AI not as a magic replacement for your brain, but as a high-speed power tool that can cut your finger off if you aren't careful. It teaches you the safety guards, the leverage points, and the exact workflows that turn AI from a toy into a career-altering advantage.If you write code for a living—and you plan to keep doing it—this is the playbook you need. Read more