Beyond Code : Build Reliable AI-Assisted Software with Context Engineering, Mechanical Gates, and AI Agent Control.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McEntire, Jeremy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Software engineering.

Artificial intelligence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, Limited, 2026.

Summary:

Discover why AI changes engineering by moving attention from code output to durable decisions, safer boundaries, and shared understanding Key Features Apply context engineering to control what AI coding agents see and produce Replace subjective code review with mechanical gates and executable acceptance criteria Design and coordinate multi-agent.

Contents:

Cover

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Contents

Preface

Part I: The Shift

Chapter 1: The Inversion

Chapter 2: Why Vibe Coding Fails

Part II: Context

Chapter 3: Context Is the Substrate

Chapter 4: Feeding the Machine

Chapter 5: What Not to Feed

Part III: Constraints

Chapter 6: Mechanical Gates Over Advisory Review

Chapter 7: Decomposition as Design

Chapter 8: The Constraint Topology

Part IV: Coordination

Chapter 9: Coordination Without Dialogue

Chapter 10: Why Hierarchy Fails (and Why You Need It Anyway)

Chapter 11: The Goodhart Trap

Part V: The Craft

Chapter 12: Grokking

Chapter 13: Multi-Pass Thinking

Chapter 14: Them Problems vs You Problems

Chapter 15: Organizational Navigation

Part VI: The Future

Chapter 16: What Engineers Become

Chapter 17: What We Build Next

Acknowledgments

References

About the Author.

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Other Format:

Print version: McEntire, Jeremy Beyond Code

ISBN:

9781808342028

OCLC:

1609715773