The briefs

The six newsroom articles tagged gen-z-book, in the order they were published, and the two build briefs written for the agents that make the book and its website. They are the source of everything this site does; captured verbatim on 18 October 2026, with the newsroom's chrome left out.

article 01

Hired for the workflow

why October 2026 is the moment to get into agentic work, why you are more technical than you think, and how the edge starts with the application

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article 02

Act as the job you want

if you are looking for a job, you have time, so do the work in public, make it linkable, and let the people who want to help you help you

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article 03

Generation Z Developers, again

the 2018 book that said act like you are part of the company, what it got right, and a second edition for the people I want to help

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article 04

A book for one reader

a personalised edition of Generation Z Developers, assembled by an agent for one person, and paid for as it is read

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article 05

A website to finish the book

gen-z-developers.sgit.ai, where the released book lives in the repository, the working book lives in a vault, and agents help me review it at every altitude

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article 06

Short, punchy, and co-written with Claude

what the second edition of Generation Z Developers has to be, and how we show it is not AI slop

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note 08

A website to finish the book

a build brief for gen-z-developers.sgit.ai

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Every article says what it does not claim, and so does this site: on 18 October 2026, after this first release, the second edition is still unwritten. What exists is the first edition as released, the map, the roles, the working vault, and the versions page that will carry the delta when a second version is signed off.

The captured markdown is in admin/content/briefs/; the newsroom's series page is on each article, and the briefs map is at newsroom.sgit.ai/briefs.