Part II — The Declarative Shift

The most immediate of the five changequakes: the move from telling machines how to telling them what — and what it asks of the people who lead the work.

This is the part of the book about artificial intelligence, and it is deliberately the only part. The shift to declarative, agentic work is the tremor already on your desk, so it earns concentrated treatment here: what the shift actually is (Chapter 4), and how to work with the agents it produces (Chapter 5). It stays at the altitude of leadership. For the hands-on craft of building and running agentic systems, this book points to its companion, the Agentic Coding course, rather than reproducing it.