Everyone’s talking about vibe coding. Few are using it for real work.

Small teams are punching way above their weight by letting AI write the vast majority of their code, but this powerful new way of working is still flying under the radar for most companies. The conversation is stuck on weekend projects and demos, while the enterprise treats AI like a smarter autocomplete.

This book is for engineering leaders and experienced developers who want to build serious software with AI—and actually unlock the leverage it offers. It introduces a clear, step-by-step workflow that makes this approach reliable, repeatable, and scalable.

You’ll learn a practical, disciplined approach to building applications—not with AI as a co-pilot, but as the primary developer.

What you’ll learn:

•A complete, battle tested methodology for directing AI to build serious, scalable software.

•How to become a skilled AI orchestrator, transitioning from writing code to designing systems.

•Precise techniques for specifying requirements, interfaces, and data models that get you the code you want.

•An “archaeology” workflow for safely navigating and extending complex, existing codebases.

•Practical rituals and role changes to scale these methods across your engineering team.

•Actual prompt structures and examples showing exactly how to apply the method in real-world projects.

Written by a VP of Engineering who’s led cloud engineering and AI transformation at Fortune 500 scale. He’s spent hundreds of hours hands-on with these tools, building production systems and pioneering AI-first development methods with his teams. He also wrote Riley & Bot, a children’s book about AI and the future of work.

The gap between what’s possible and what most teams are doing has never been wider. This book shows you how to close it.