The Code Is Lying
Engineering with Coding Agents
$42.59
- Paperback
270 pages
- Release Date
11 September 2026
Summary
When code gets cheap, understanding becomes expensive.
AI can turn a description into working software in minutes. That does not make the surrounding engineering problems disappear. It moves them. When generation stops being the bottleneck, the scarce work becomes everything that was always harder to automate: stating intent precisely, supplying context, reviewing what came back, verifying that it is safe, integrating it, and deciding when an answer should not be trusted.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789334504446 |
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| ISBN-10: | 9334504447 |
| Author: | Alen Joy |
| Publisher: | Alen Joy |
| Imprint: | Alen Joy |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 270 |
| Release Date: | 11 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Alen Joy
Alen Joy is a Technical Architect with more than thirteen years of experience designing and building scalable enterprise systems. His work spans cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and AI-powered engineering solutions across Azure and .NET. More recently, his focus has been on Agentic AI and the design of engineering systems where automation works with clear guardrails and human judgment remains part of the loop.
His approach to architecture is grounded in a practical question: how do you turn messy real-world constraints into decisions that hold up in production? That perspective shapes both his engineering work and his writing. He writes about architecture decisions, trade-offs, and practical patterns for building systems with AI, .NET, and distributed infrastructure. The ideas in this book grew out of those lessons.
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