{"product_id":"beyond-code-jeremy-mcentire-9798994968529","title":"Beyond Code: Context, Constraints, and the New Craft of Software","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAI didn't change what makes a great engineer. It revealed it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCode generation is now nearly free. You can produce in minutes what once took days. And yet most teams shipping AI-generated code are moving faster toward the wrong destination. The cost of building dropped to near-zero, but the cost of being wrong didn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeyond Code\u003c\/b\u003e is for software engineers, tech leads, and engineering managers who refuse to hand their craft to a chatbot and call it progress. Drawing on information theory, cognitive science, and organizational physics, Jeremy McEntire shows why the engineers who thrive in the AI era are the ones who put the \u003ci\u003escience\u003c\/i\u003e back in computer science: experimentation over dogma, measurement over intuition, honest analysis over framework fanboyism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou will learn: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eContext engineering\u003c\/b\u003e - how to design the information environment that makes AI output actually useful, not just plausible\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eConstraint design\u003c\/b\u003e - why mechanical verification beats advisory review, and how to build systems that resist Goodhart's Law\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMulti-pass cognition\u003c\/b\u003e - the thinking patterns that separate senior engineers from prompt-and-pray developers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOrganizational navigation\u003c\/b\u003e - how signal degrades through hierarchy, and what to do about it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCoordination at scale\u003c\/b\u003e - why adding more people makes teams slower, and architectures that actually fix it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded in Crawford-Sobel signaling theory, the Data Processing Inequality, and cognitive load research, \u003cb\u003eBeyond Code\u003c\/b\u003e doesn't teach you which buttons to press. It teaches you to see the forces that govern every software system - so you can derive the right approach for any tool, any team, any era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn a world where you can test three architectures in the time it used to take to argue about one, there is no excuse for not measuring.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeremy McEntire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798994968529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cage \u0026amp; Mirror Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Jeremy McEntire","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48623598862591,"sku":"9798994968529","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beyond-code-jeremy-mcentire-9798994968529","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}