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Context EngineeringFrom Vibe Coder to Software Engineer

Vibe coding lowers the barrier to entry. This book raises the ceiling.

A practical guide to building production-grade AI systems. Learn the engineering discipline behind system prompts, retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent architectures, memory systems, testing, and safe deployment — written by a practitioner who has applied these patterns across 10+ domains.

15
Chapters
5
Appendices
Free
To Read Online
Code Examples

What You'll Learn

Fifteen chapters moving from foundational concepts to production-grade systems. Every chapter links directly to the web version — start anywhere.

—Introduction

Part I

Foundations

Part II

Core Techniques

Part III

Building Real Systems

Part IV

Quality & Operations

Appendices

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Code Examples on GitHub

Every code example in the book is available in a public GitHub repository — ready to clone, experiment with, and extend. Each example is tested and matches the patterns described in the chapter.

About the Author

Craig Trulove is the founder of Augmented Advisors and a practitioner with 18+ years of enterprise technology leadership. He spent most of that career at Perficient, where he rose to Director of Cloud & AI Platforms, leading transformation initiatives for Fortune 500 companies across healthcare, financial services, transportation, and legal.

The context engineering techniques in this book come from real production work — AI projects spanning knowledge management platforms, content systems, data engineering, web applications, games, developer tools, healthcare operations, non-profit solutions, and creative applications. The patterns work because they have been applied across 10+ domains and iterated until they held up under real conditions.

Craig founded Augmented Advisors to apply this applied AI expertise to any challenge — helping organizations move from vibe coding to disciplined AI engineering, the same way this book does.

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