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Book Review

Process Over Magic: Beyond Vibe Coding

by Uberto Barbini

June 14, 2026 books ai engineering

Short, sane, and already dated. A book that argues for owning your code and your thinking, but whose examples have aged out from under it.

Series · 7 parts

Building with Gas City

Build a working RSS reader using Gas City's multi-agent orchestration. Seven parts: from standing up your first agent to scheduled digests and full-text search — with a code reviewer that catches real bugs along the way.

1. → Overview
2. 00 Installation and setup
3. 01 Starting the mayor and sending mail
4. 02 Your first backend agent
5. 03 Multi-specialist chains and bead dependencies
6. 04 Adding a code reviewer
7. 05 Scheduled orders and custom formulas
8. 06 Full-text search, end to end

Book Review

Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track

by Will Larson

April 17, 2026 books career engineering

A well-structured guide for engineers in traditional, leveled orgs thinking about the staff track. Focused enough that the focus itself is both the strength and the constraint.