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Skin in the Runtime
Technical Judgment for Leaders in the AI Era
William Shane Burrell
Your engineers are shipping faster than ever. So why do outcomes feel worse? AI moved the constraint from typing to judgment. This book is for CTOs, VPs of engineering, directors, and the senior engineers about to become them.
Kindle $12.99 · Paperback $16.99 · Hardcover $24.99
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Who this book is for
CTOs, VPs of engineering, directors, and the senior engineers about to become them: leaders accountable for outcomes their teams now produce with AI in the loop. Not a prompt-engineering guide or a tool comparison. Every chapter ends with an artifact you can put to work the same week.
Inside the book
Full chapter guide and sample artifact →- 1 Where AI-era delivery actually stalls Read: The Review Bottleneck →
- 2 Cognitive debt Read: Cognitive Debt →
- 3 The metrics that prove AI is working, and the ones that lie Read: Measuring AI-Assisted Engineering →
- 4 The leadership-grade homelab Read: The Leadership-Grade Homelab →
- 5 Agent sprawl is the new shadow IT Read: Agent Sprawl Is the New Shadow IT →
- 6 Build versus rent when AI has repriced the ledger Read: Own Your Destiny →
- 7 Proof under pressure: the $14M migration Read: Leading Platform Migrations at Scale →
- 8 Crisis leadership Read: Leadership Lessons from Law Enforcement →
- 9 Teams that own the runtime Read: Designing Small End-to-End Teams →
Formats
ISBN 9798170869831 (paperback). Also available through Amazon marketplaces outside the US.
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Contract Over Code
Owning the Ask, the Review, and the Outcome When Generation Is Cheap
William Shane Burrell
Generation is cheap. The contract is not. Your queue is reporting an unowned contract, not a generation problem. This book tells you whether that is a staffing problem, a gating problem, or an ownership problem, and what to install in ninety days.
Kindle $12.99 · Paperback $18.99 · Hardcover $27.99
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Cognitive Debt
What Your Team Must Still Understand When AI Writes the Middle
William Shane Burrell
Boards keep asking whether anyone still understands the codebase. The question is aimed at the wrong object. This book turns that diagnosis into an audit you can run this week and a ninety-day paydown on one expensive surface. No new tooling.
Kindle $12.99 · Paperback $18.99 · Hardcover $27.99
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Reading it with a team?
Bulk copies are easy to arrange, and a working session walks your leadership team through the first artifact with the person who wrote it.