Shane Burrell
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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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Who this book is for

CTOs, VPs of engineering, and directors who still own outcomes. Not a prompt-engineering guide or a tooling rollout. Every numbered chapter ends with an artifact you can run the same week, with no new tooling.

The diagnosis already lives in an insight here. The audit and the paydown are in the book.

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Formats

ISBN 9798175676762 (paperback) · ISBN 9798175677769 (hardcover). Also available through Amazon marketplaces outside the US.

Skin in the Runtime book cover

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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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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.