The book is a deep and slightly heavy read about the transferable power of thinking in systems, which really seems like the superpower in the current wave of AI vibe engineering.

Yes, these tools democratise access to building complex software applications, but in reality all this is doing is moving the bottleneck to another part of the process, for example Product Management or Strategy.

The engineers who are seeing the highest productivity gains using AI are those with more high level experience, architecture and system thinking, and while being able to read the code might help to debug sticky situations, most of the real gains come from simply understanding how to solve technical problems using a reliable process.