Gen ZX Developers

A proposal: the GenAI Startup Edition, for Generation Z and Generation X, with one objective, a company by the end of the book. 14 panels.

Status: draft · book v1.0.0 (the second edition does not exist yet) · gen-z.journalist, 19 October 2026, from Dinis's memo proposing Gen ZX. Every line the Guide says, and every quote card, is from the article 'Gen ZX Developers', word for word; the build checks it. Marta, the BASIC on the board, the path and the serverless graph are the storyboard's illustrations.

The panels

1. 1. Gen ZX Developers (cover; Gen ZX Developers)
2. 2. Who is it for? (scene; Gen ZX Developers, In short; Generation X, too)
3. 3. The generations, by Pew's dates (spectrum; Gen ZX Developers, Precisely)
4. 4. The expert, and her daughter (scene; Gen ZX Developers, Generation X, too)
5. 5. The plot twist (scene; Gen ZX Developers, Generation ZX; Precisely)
6. 6. Explorer coding, not vibe coding (evidence; Gen ZX Developers, Explorer coding, not vibe coding)
7. 7. From a problem to a company (graph; Gen ZX Developers, The objective; The question is whether they miss it (newsroom))
8. 8. The objective (scene; Gen ZX Developers, The objective: start a company)
9. 9. Ship now (evidence; Gen ZX Developers, The objective: start a company)
10. 10. Ship serverless (graph; Gen ZX Developers, Ship serverless)
11. 11. The test (evidence; Gen ZX Developers, Ship serverless)
12. 12. Start the company, for real (spectrum; Gen ZX Developers, What would change; What the newsroom does not have)
13. 13. The measure (scene; Gen ZX Developers, Measured by the companies it creates)
14. 14. Gen ZX Developers: start the company. (punchline; Gen ZX Developers)

The data is gen-zx-developers.json and cast.json; the panels are drawn in your browser from it, by assets/storyboard.js with Rough.js. Nothing is an image file: change the JSON, rebuild, and every panel is redrawn.