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AI: Programming Like a God

The Heavenly Gates

AI writes code faster than you can review it. This book gives you the gates: automated guardrails that catch bugs, enforce standards, and verify behavior before bad code reaches production. Stop being the last line of defense. Build systems that protect themselves.

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Your team ships faster with AI. Your team also ships more bugs, more security holes, and more code nobody understands.

This book shows you how to build quality gates—automated checkpoints that verify AI-generated code before it reaches production. You'll learn to create rails that shape AI output, build gates that catch errors in seconds, test gates that verify behavior, and review gates that use AI to check AI.

Each chapter adds one gate. A running example (Gatekeeper, a permissions service) ties everything together. By the end, you have a complete stack that lets you merge on green instead of reviewing every line.

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  • About this book
    • Who this book is for
    • Who this book is NOT for
  • About the author
  • How to use this book
  • Chapter 1: The path to the gates
    • 1.1 The five eras of coding
    • 1.2 Why vibe coding isn't enough
    • 1.3 The team dissolved into one plus a digital god
    • 1.4 The new job: design and verify
    • 1.5 The gates

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