The Book
Real Programmers Use AI
AI is a coding tool. Used well, it helps you plan, debug, refactor, test, and document faster while you stay accountable for every line that ships.
Real Programmers Use AI is a practical book built from real development work and real constraints, including legacy stacks that AI tools routinely handle badly.
This is not a book about prompt tricks or letting AI run your codebase. It is about the workflows, methods, and discipline that make AI genuinely useful for serious programmers.
The guides and field notes on this site are drawn from the same material. Each piece published here connects to a chapter in the book.