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The New Rules — First Edition (2025)

Your Survival Guide for the AI-Transformed Software Landscape

From three-second aha to ten-second implementation. From code as craft to code as commodity.

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The rules have changed. GitHub stars are dead. Years of experience? Irrelevant. Your ability to memorize syntax? Worthless. When AI can write code in seconds, what makes YOU valuable?

Created by seasoned developer Andrzej Tuchołka, this book cuts through the AI hype to deliver brutal truths and practical strategies. No corporate consulting BS, no vendor feeding frenzies — just real insights from the trenches of the AI transformation.

What You'll Master

  • Algorithmic Gatekeepers
  • Trust Protocol
  • Economics of Abundance

What's Inside

  • 16 Core Chapters
  • Real Case Studies
  • Future-Proof Principles

16 Chapters. Zero BS. Pure Strategy.

CHAPTER 1

The 10-Second Integration

Why patience is extinct and speed to value is the new baseline

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CHAPTER 2

The Algorithmic Gatekeepers

How AI models became kingmakers

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CHAPTER 3

The Attention Singularity

Competing when AI can generate infinite alternatives

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CHAPTER 4

The Modern Success Stack

Ten critical attributes for AI-era success

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CHAPTER 5

The Velocity Paradox

Why the fastest way to ship software in 2025 is to stop rushing

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CHAPTER 6

Distribution in the AI Era

Navigating new walled gardens and platform monopolies

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CHAPTER 7

Engineering Serendipity

Manufacturing luck and discovery in a world of infinite noise

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CHAPTER 8

The Trust Protocol

Building credibility when anyone can appear expert

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CHAPTER 9

Narrative Engineering

Why stories matter more than code

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CHAPTER 10

The New Tribal Dynamics

Death of mega-communities, rise of micro-tribes

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CHAPTER 11

The Contribution Economy

When implementation becomes trivial, ideas become everything

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CHAPTER 12

Governance at Scale

Decision-making in hypergrowth and fork explosion

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CHAPTER 13

Economics of Abundance

Business models when marginal cost approaches zero

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CHAPTER 14

The Maintenance Myth

Hidden costs of AI-maintained code

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CHAPTER 15

Personal Sustainability

Orchestrator vs implementer paths

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CHAPTER 16

The Next Paradigm

Patterns that transcend technology shifts

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