Link:Peter Bell
O'Reilly eBook: Scaling AI Adoption in Engineering
Peter Bell's O'Reilly eBook 'Scaling AI Adoption in Engineering' provides engineering leaders with a pragmatic framework for scaling AI across the software development lifecycle.
Free O'Reilly E-Book: Scaling AI Adoption in Engineering
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Gergely Orosz highlighted an in-progress O'Reilly e-book by Peter Bell titled 'Scaling AI Adoption in Engineering'. Offered for free as an Early Release sponsored by Antithesis, the guide aims to help CTOs and engineering leaders deliver tangible business value through AI.
Key points
- Early Access format: The initial download contains four chapters, with subsequent chapters delivered automatically ahead of its planned completion before December 2026.
- Leadership focus: Tailored for engineering leaders to navigate real-world adoption challenges, including organisational structure, team alignment, hiring strategies, and risk.
- Real-world insights: Features case studies, heuristics, and interviews with engineering leaders from organisations such as Coinbase, Box, and Vistaprint.
- Author observation: Peter Bell noted that writing with a custom agentic pipeline actually takes longer than manual drafting, but results in richer content.
Why it matters
Engineering organisations often struggle to translate generative AI experiments into measurable commercial impact. Practical frameworks that focus on organisational alignment and risk management help leaders avoid hype paralysis.
Analysis
The resource targets a pressing challenge for engineering management: bridging the divide between tool adoption and bottom-line productivity. By grounding recommendations in interviews with established CTOs, the publication focuses on workflow integration and governance rather than superficial tooling demos. Bell's note on using an agentic writing pipeline also offers a grounded counterpoint to common productivity claims around generative AI.
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Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz · 23 September 2026
I am a sucker for good books, and so especially O'Reilly books. Here's one that is WIP, but in return, it is free, thanks to @AntithesisHQ It's for CTOs / eng leaders who want to get AI to deliver *business value* which is... tricky. Get it here: t.co/4igs7Elk3i t.co/isXVozDNmX
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- @Sxmxxrth @AntithesisHQ AI bot, blocked
- It’s early access with 4 chapters. As more are added they will be sent to those getting it. Likely to be finished by ~Dec but it’s up to the author (details from Antithesis) This is the thing with very timely books: it’s fresh but not finished! t.co/1CoEGq0zFF
- @i_m_Pania @AntithesisHQ It’s not nearly done and upcoming chapters will be added + sent out, they told me t.co/2zBV1kz4fe
- @hossein761 @AntithesisHQ Dude it’s literally being written as we speak, how can it be outdated - the parts not written? t.co/2zBV1kz4fe
- Oh, author @PeterBell is online, do follow him!! Brave of him to commit to before Dec, and you heard the man 🫡 t.co/cEsxqtp9w4
- @PeterBell @i_m_Pania t.co/zsUY7pHCRr
Selected replies (5)
- @PeterBell @GergelyOrosz Hey @GergelyOrosz and @i_m_Pania - author here. Before December. Have most of the content - just need to get it all written down - and despite a very rich custom agentic pipeline, it takes LONGER to write it AI assisted than manually. But it's worth it as the content is way
- @zosoooo @GergelyOrosz @AntithesisHQ @GergelyOrosz thanks. What do you think about t.co/ufnV4dhQ1I from @chadfowler? Also in draft only but I am reading it right now and it helps to organise what we should really focus on as engineers and leaders when code is cheap and can be regenerated at any time.
- @i_m_Pania @GergelyOrosz @AntithesisHQ Is it only 30 pages or did I download only a part of the book?
- @PeterBell @i_m_Pania @GergelyOrosz @AntithesisHQ Still workinbg on it - more chapters in the next week or two...
- @PeterBell @AyaanBuild @GergelyOrosz @AntithesisHQ I have interviews with everything from the CTOs or Coinbase, Box and Vistaprint to @_lopopolo @GeoffreyHuntley and @sschillace - they start to drop next week :)
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