Lucas Brandt is a software engineer based in Amsterdam with over ten years of experience across frontend development, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems. He's been building for the web since he was a teenager, and now works on high-reliability software where performance and correctness are requirements, not nice-to-haves.

Over the past year he's integrated AI coding agents deeply into his engineering workflow, running parallel sessions daily, building custom skills and verification loops, and developing opinions about what works and what doesn't. This book came out of the gap he noticed: plenty of hype, very little practical guidance from someone doing the work every day.

He writes about engineering practices, AI tooling, and what the profession looks like when the code mostly writes itself.