Acknowledgements

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This book stands on the public work of people generous enough to write down how they actually work: Simon Willison, Andrej Karpathy, Kent Beck, Armin Ronacher, Mitchell Hashimoto, Geoffrey Huntley, Harper Reed and lauren (@poteto). None of them has reviewed or endorsed this book, and any misreading of their ideas is mine. Thanks also to the maintainers of the open-source projects used as test subjects in my experiments, including Click, Shopizer and its React storefront, Celery, NestJS, Express, Next.js Boilerplate, spring-petclinic and the full-stack FastAPI template, and to the authors of the Open Knowledge Format. Most of all, thanks to my wife, Mrs Meabs, for her endless patience while I muttered at terminal windows and ran “just one more trial arm” over the weekend.

And thanks to you, for reading to the end. Now go and build the yard.