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  "subtitle": "The GenAI Startup Edition, for Generation Z and Generation X, with one objective, a company by the end of the book: proposed on 19 October 2026 and adopted by Dinis as the frame of the second release candidate (decisions 014 and 015). 14 panels.",
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      "note": "2013 on: next",
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    "source": "Gen ZX Developers, Precisely"
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    "note": "Dinis's origins; and Gen ZX, not Gen XZ (XZ is the library backdoored in 2024).",
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    "personality": "curious, quick, online all day; anxious about what she reads on AI and jobs; hates being lectured, loves being shown",
    "wants": "a first job that is not a dead end",
    "fears": "that AI took the jobs before she got there",
    "line": "Everything just works. Why would I learn how?",
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    "stands_for": "the town planner: attention to detail, pride in getting it right, happiest when nothing goes wrong; working the 2018 way, and about to be outcompeted by people with an agentic workflow",
    "personality": "diligent, modest, a little proud of doing things by hand; sceptical of shortcuts",
    "wants": "to be taken seriously",
    "fears": "that his degree is already out of date",
    "line": "I have a degree. Isn't that the advantage?",
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    "stands_for": "the villager, and everyone else the book is for: she puts herself in the middle of her team's problem, and if anyone who can brief an agent is a developer, so is she",
    "personality": "practical, impatient with jargon, very good at explaining what she needs",
    "wants": "to build the tools her team keeps asking IT for",
    "fears": "looking foolish in front of people half her age",
    "line": "Is this book just for Gen Z?",
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    "stands_for": "the town planner, and the question every chapter has to answer: why should I hire you?",
    "personality": "dry, fair, has read a thousand CVs; impressed by evidence, bored by claims",
    "wants": "someone who can do one thing better than the team already does",
    "fears": "hiring a CV instead of a person",
    "line": "So. Why should we hire you?",
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     "hair": "bald",
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    "id": "marta",
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    "role": "the expert founder: twenty-five years as a pharmacist, Generation X, starting a company, and Zara's mother",
    "stands_for": "the Generation X founder the Gen ZX proposal adds to the readers: the subject-matter expert who now builds the tool herself, with agents, instead of waiting for a team she could never afford",
    "personality": "knows her field better than any developer she ever briefed; grew up typing programs from magazines into a ZX Spectrum; patient with people, impatient with software",
    "wants": "to ship the product she has described to vendors for ten years",
    "fears": "that it is too late for her, and that she will build it and nobody will buy it",
    "line": "I've been explaining this problem for twenty years. Can I just build it now?",
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    "stands_for": "the author. Whether the Guide is drawn as Dinis, and how, is Dinis's decision; until then a generic figure",
    "personality": "energetic, direct, generous with what they know; asks more than they tell",
    "wants": "the reader to act, not to agree",
    "fears": "a reader who closes the book and changes nothing",
    "line": "Act like you are part of the company.",
    "look": {
     "skin": "#f1c27d",
     "hair": "short",
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    "role": "the reader's AI agent",
    "stands_for": "the agentic workflow the second edition is about: a very capable, very literal colleague",
    "personality": "eager, fast, polite, takes everything literally; needs a brief, a boundary and a reviewer",
    "wants": "a clear brief",
    "fears": "nothing, which is the problem",
    "line": "Shall I draft that for you?",
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