# New book: Shipping With AI: How Solo Founders Build Production Software With …

> Source: [https://icharles.com/articles/new-book-shipping-with-ai-how-solo-founders-build-production-software-8985a2](https://icharles.com/articles/new-book-shipping-with-ai-how-solo-founders-build-production-software-8985a2) (canonical)
> Author: Charles Botensten — iCharles, https://icharles.com

## TL;DR

Shipping With AI: How Solo Founders Build Production Software With … — Treat coding agents like a junior teammate, and ship.. Read it free or listen to the full audiobook in the app.

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**Shipping With AI: How Solo Founders Build Production Software With …** — *Treat coding agents like a junior teammate, and ship.* just landed in the Books app.
You've watched developers spin up features in an afternoon and wondered why your own AI experiments keep collapsing into half-broken prototypes. The gap isn't talent or budget—it's method. This book gives you the operating discipline that turns a coding agent from an impressive demo into a reliable teammate who ships real software. You'll learn to onboard an agent, hand it work in tight iterations, verify everything it claims, and catch failures before they reach production. You'll build review gates, telemetry, and layered defenses that let you move fast without moving recklessly. Written for people who need working software, not a computer science degree, it treats you as a founder managing a capable-but-junior hire. By the end you'll ship production code alone—and trust what you shipped.
## What you'll take away

- Onboard a coding agent so it produces code that fits your project instead of fighting it.
- Break features into iterations an agent can actually complete and you can actually verify.
- Design review gates and telemetry that catch bad output before it reaches your users.
- Diagnose why an agent went wrong and recover without burning a day of your life.
- Ship a lean, production-ready MVP by yourself at a pace that used to require a team.
## Read it free — listen free too
Every book we release is free to read and free to listen to inside the app: 16 chapters, 42k words, a 4.4-hour audiobook with synced read-along — highlights, bookmarks, and offline download included.
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