AI-Native Series · minibooks on Leanpub

Claude Code, one audience per book.

Four short, dense books that take you from wherever you start to AI-native with Claude Code. The Reluctant Engineer is out now on Leanpub; the other three are being written. Every lesson ends with exercises you run for real, terminal open. English and Italian editions.

The model is the same for everyone. Your only edge is the context you give it and the controls you put around it.

4 titles1 out now3 in progressEnglish + Italian

The books

Pick your way in

Same tool, four starting points. One is out now, three are being written. Each title ships as a separate English or Italian edition — same content, never mixed.

Edition

For engineers7 chapters · 15 lessons · ~16,000 words · basics stripped

The Reluctant Engineer

Out now

Claude Code for engineers who think AI is overrated

You’re not wrong about the slop. You’re wrong about where it comes from. Slop is a process defect, not a property of the model: it shows up exactly where verification, permission layers, a clean context window and someone reading the diff are missing. This book builds that process around a non-deterministic tool — and asks you to raise the controls, not lower your standards.

Seven chapters, dense on purpose

  1. You're half right
  2. Keep control
  3. Keep quality
  4. Context is the job
  5. Orchestration
  6. Ship with guardrails
  7. Systems that compound
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For non-coders10 chapters · ~20,000 words · from scratch

Claude Code for Non-Coders

Coming soon

Become AI-native in 10 days, no coding required

Become AI-native with Claude Code — even if you’ve never written a line of code. A hands-on path to make AI do the work for you: prompts, projects, skills, memory, sub-agents and automations. No technical background required, just the willingness to talk to your computer in your own words. Ten days, two lessons a day.

Ten days, one chapter a day

  1. Foundations: what Claude Code really is
  2. The right mindset
  3. Vision & direction
  4. First hands-on steps
  5. Quality & cost
  6. Setting up a project
  7. Your AI operating system
  8. Skills & memory
  9. Sub-agents & building real things
  10. Advanced systems & the future
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For solo operators8 moves · ~22,000 words

AI-Native Operator

Coming soon

Build your one-person AI operating system with Claude Code

Do a whole team’s work — solo. If you run your own business, or run yourself as one, this is the path to turn Claude Code into your AI operating system: one place wired to revenue, customers, calendar and tools, that remembers everything and works while you sleep.

Eight moves, one per sitting

  1. The operator's mindset
  2. Find the leverage
  3. Set up your cockpit
  4. Connect your business
  5. Quality & cost you can trust
  6. Teach it your business
  7. Delegate & build
  8. Run it while you sleep
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For consultants & freelancers6 phases · ~20,000 words

The AI-Native Consultant

Coming soon

Do a team's work for your clients, solo, with Claude Code

Expertise is the moat; you shift from doer to reviewer. The six phases of a client engagement — from your edge to discovery, production, productizing, delivery and scale — with Claude Code doing a team’s output and you keeping the judgment. For people who deliver for clients without hiring a team.

Six phases of the client lifecycle

  1. Your edge
  2. Discover
  3. Produce
  4. Productize
  5. Deliver
  6. Scale & trust
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Inside every book

Built to be worked, not read

Every title follows the same shape. Keep a terminal open next to the book.

About the authors

Written by ShipWithAI

ShipWithAI teaches people to work with AI without losing their judgment. Behind the name are Alessandro Magionami and Manuel Martone, two senior engineers with thirty-plus years of shipping software across fifteen-plus companies, and a studio that builds and runs its own products — StackMap, NoIdea, autom8n — with the same tools and process the books teach.

No hype, no demos that die at the first edge case: just the process that makes the output worth trusting. That is why these books spend more time on permission layers, verification and context hygiene than on clever prompts.

2 senior engineers30+ years shipping15+ companies

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