The book lives on this site and changes as the tools change. Each chapter says when it was last checked.
14 November 2026
- New order after a cold read: Navigating opens the book, First afternoon with a coding agent became chapter 8, between the chat chapters and Building, and Writing this book moved to the end.
- Agent and app-building passages moved out of the chat chapters into Building and Delegating.
- Repeated lines and exchanges now appear once; later chapters link to the card instead.
- Technical terms carry a short explanation: hover or tap a term marked with "…". The ebook has a glossary.
- Every field note has a fixed link, and michellzappa.com/c/ plus its id leads to it.
- Writing this book updated with the later sources, the audience choices and a list of what the book is made from.
- New appendix: How I run my agents, with the rules my coding agents read first.
- Then-and-now field notes: the same task early on and recently.
- Each chapter now says when it was last checked.
- Chapters reordered as a ladder, from thinking with AI to running agents.
- Field notes ranked on seven tests; 74 of 137 kept, best first. All of them are listed on one page, with the move each one teaches.
- New appendix: First afternoon with a coding agent.
- Passages added from the newsletter (all 146 issues), recent calls and the Artificial Insights WhatsApp group.
- The talk Navigating the Future of AI folded into the chapters.
- The afterword renamed The only skill left.
13 November 2026
- New chapters: Delegating, and Writing this book.
- Principles became an open list.
12 November 2026
- Chapters 1 to 7 rebuilt from my own words: newsletter text, talks, calls and chat messages.
- Navigating added as a chapter.
October to December 2025
- Chapters 1 to 7 first published in the Artificial Insights newsletter, issues 120 to 126.