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Software Engineering with AI Coding Agents

AI coding agents can generate code in seconds-but how do you make sure that code is correct, secure, maintainable, and actually ready for production?

If you understand the basics of software development but feel unsure about bringing AI coding agents into real projects, this book gives you a practical path forward.

Software Engineering with AI Coding Agents takes you beyond autocomplete, isolated prompts, and impressive-looking generated code. Instead, you will learn how to build reliable AI-assisted software development workflows in which coding agents can inspect repositories, make bounded changes, run tests, respond to feedback, work with Git, and contribute safely to modern software delivery.

You do not need previous experience with autonomous coding agents, agent frameworks, or advanced AI concepts. The material develops progressively, helping you build confidence one engineering practice at a time. Mistakes are treated as useful signals-not failures to fear-and each chapter turns complex ideas into practical habits you can apply to real or sample repositories.

Key Features

• Practical, tool-neutral guidance that remains useful as AI products evolve

• Real-world approaches to repository readiness and context engineering

• Verification-first methods for testing and reviewing AI-generated code

• Secure permission boundaries, sandboxing, and human approval controls

• Git, pull request, CI/CD, deployment, and observability workflows

• Practical exercises, checklists, templates, and reference material

• A disciplined approach to increasing agent autonomy safely

What You Will Learn

You will discover how to:

• Prepare software repositories for reliable AI-assisted development

• Give coding agents precise, relevant, and maintainable context

• Turn vague requirements into bounded, verifiable engineering tasks

• Generate code without losing architectural intent or maintainability

• Use tests, type checking, static analysis, and CI as deterministic feedback

• Protect secrets, dependencies, infrastructure, and production environments

• Review AI-generated diffs and integrate changes safely through Git

• Build controlled CI/CD and deployment workflows

• Scale agentic development across teams with governance and measurable outcomes

Who This Book Is For

This book is ideal for developers, backend and full-stack engineers, software architects, DevOps and platform engineers, technical leads, engineering managers, and other software professionals who already understand basic programming and development workflows but are new to AI coding agents and agentic software development.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Engineering for Agentic Software Development
Chapter 2 - Building Agent-Ready Software Repositories
Chapter 3 - Context Engineering for Coding Agents
Chapter 4 - Specifications and Agent-Executable Task Design
Chapter 5 - Reliable AI-Assisted Code Generation
Chapter 6 - Verification-First Engineering
Chapter 7 - Security, Permissions, and Execution Boundaries
Chapter 8 - Git, Code Review, and Controlled Integration
Chapter 9 - CI/CD and AI-Assisted Software Delivery
Chapter 10 - Scaling Agentic Development Across Engineering Teams

AI coding agents become far more useful when they operate inside strong engineering boundaries. Start building those boundaries today-and turn AI-assisted coding from an experiment into a reliable part of professional software development.

Book details

• Full title: Software Engineering with AI Coding Agents
• Subtitle: A Practical Guide to Agentic Development, Reliable Code Generation, and AI-Assisted Software Delivery
• Author: Adrian Solvek
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284
• EAN: 9798170109074
• ID: 53668885
• Publisher: Independently published
• Weight: 499 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 178 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. August 2026

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