This manuscript examines how software engineering is being rewritten in the age of agents. Its concern is not simply how to use more AI, but how engineering, organization, and management must be redesigned once AI begins to participate in real work.
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- Preface
- Prologue: After We No Longer Write Code by Hand, What Remains for Engineers?
- Part I: Terms, Origins, and Paradigm Shifts
- Part II: The Seven-Layer Structure of Harness
- Part III: Agent-First Software Engineering
- Part IV: Verification, Evaluation, and Control Systems
- Part V: Organization, Management, and Collaboration
- Part VI: Beyond Coding: Generalization
- Part VII: Critique, Boundaries, and the Future
- Case Studies: Four Scenes and One Counterexample
- References and Further Reading
- Submission Outline and Book Synopsis