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The 5 Phases of Craftship (Why AI Amplifies Wherever You Already Are)The Phases of Craftship
Two developers, same AI, opposite years — one terrified he's falling behind, the other having his best year yet. The difference is...
Agentic Coding Is a TrapThe Metaphysics
AI-assisted coding is accelerating skill atrophy for developers who haven't built the foundations yet. Here's how to know which ph...
The Code-First DeveloperThe Phases of Craftship
As you improve as a developer, you tend to move through the 5 Phases of Craftship. In this article, we'll discuss the first phase:...

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Khalil Stemmler,
Software Essentialist ⚡

I'm Khalil. I turn code-first developers into confident crafters without having to buy, read & digest hundreds of complex programming books. Using Software Essentialism, my philosophy of software design, I teach developers the 12 Essentials of design, architecture & testing - helping them find direction, focus, and mastery of the 80-20 that actually matters.



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How to get your first customers, before you write another line of code. The exact framework I've used to sell every digital product I've made, sometimes before a single line of it existed.

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solidbook: An Introduction to the World of Software Design, Architecture & Testing

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Master the first skill you should have been taught in school: testing. Takes you through the first two Phases of Craftship.

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The Software Essentialist

Become a confident crafter. Master the 80-20 of testing, design, architecture & strategy to write scalable, testable, flexible and maintainable code on any side of the stack. Takes you through all five Phases of Craftship.

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