# Generation Z Developers > The book, one panel at a time. The second edition of Generation Z Developers, storyboarded before it was written: the punchline, the idea, the evidence and the people each chapter is for. Where the storyboards started, on 18 October 2026. *Source: . This file is the page as markdown, generated from the same content.* --- The second edition of Generation Z Developers, storyboarded before it was written: the punchline, the idea, the evidence and the people each chapter is for. Where the storyboards started, on 18 October 2026. Imported from https://gen-z-developers.sgit.ai at commit e2a71808 (2026-10-19). ## Where it started The 2018 book, and the first proposal for the second edition. - [The 2018 book, as a storyboard](the-2018-book/index.md): Book v1.0.0, the 28 published chapters, converted into 15 panels: what the first edition said, who it said it to, and where it stops. (15 panels, draft) - [A first storyline for the second edition](a-first-storyline/index.md): A proposal in 15 panels: the order the second edition could tell its argument in, built from the topics the newsroom's articles already cover. For Dinis to tear apart. Superseded: the second release candidate follows the Gen ZX frame (decision 015, storyboard 12). (15 panels, superseded) ## The second edition, part by part One storyboard per co-written article, the Guide speaking Dinis's words. - [The opening: you are lucky to be here](the-opening/index.md): The first pages of the second edition as Dinis described them, in 16 panels: wonder, not fear; the history; technology that finally works for you; learning made for you; and why that makes you a developer. (16 panels, draft) - [Where do you land?](where-do-you-land/index.md): Wardley maps, shown before they are named, and the three centres of gravity: explorer, villager, town planner. 14 panels. (14 panels, draft) - [Connect the dots backwards](connect-the-dots-backwards/index.md): Paths, mixing disciplines, learning as a lifelong skill, and why to read this on paper. 14 panels. (14 panels, draft) - [Where the thinking came from](where-the-thinking-came-from/index.md): The influences behind the book, as claims you can check, and where each one lands. 10 panels. (10 panels, draft) - [Generative AI, not AI](generative-ai-not-ai/index.md): What the book means by generative AI, how a language model works in plain words, where hallucinations come from, and where Dinis was corrected. 12 panels. (12 panels, draft) - [Follow the rabbit holes](follow-the-rabbit-holes/index.md): Provenance, explainability and asking for the evidence; and being the best-prepared person in the room. 10 panels. (10 panels, draft) - [Everything is connected](everything-is-connected/index.md): What a graph is (not a diagram), the whodunit, a graph becoming a map, groups of groups, provenance, and starting anywhere. 12 panels. (12 panels, draft) - [Lenses, roles and loops](lenses-roles-and-loops/index.md): How LLMs and agents work: a prompt as a lens, a role as a model with a description, an agent as a loop, tools as requests, no memory, compression, and focused threads. 13 panels. (14 panels, draft) ## How it is made, and what comes next The book in release mode, and the startup edition that became the frame of the second release candidate. - [The book in release mode](the-book-in-release-mode/index.md): A first release candidate from the first list, the rounds, the adversarial review board, and precedents. 14 panels. (14 panels, draft) - [Gen ZX Developers](gen-zx-developers/index.md): 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. (14 panels, draft) ## Strips from the review Short comic strips told from Dinis's review of the printed candidate: experiments in pacing, timing and flow, one beat per panel. - [Page three](page-three/index.md): Marta reads the first three pages of release candidate 2, puts the book down, and reads them again as the pen would have them. 10 panels. (10 panels, draft) - [Not to me](not-to-me/index.md): Marta reads the front of release candidate 2 on her phone, and the book keeps talking to its author. 8 panels. (8 panels, draft) - [Scan me](scan-me/index.md): Marta meets a word she does not know on page 12, and a code in the margin. 6 panels. (6 panels, draft) - [A new land](a-new-land/index.md): Note 142 drawn: explorers, then villagers, then town planners, as the population grows. 6 panels. (6 panels, draft) ## The cast - **Zara** (human): the student: final year, about to look for a first job - **Tomás** (human): the graduate: a computing degree, working the 2018 way, looking for his next job in Lisbon - **Priya** (human): the career changer: an operations manager who has never written code - **Sam** (human): the hiring manager - **Marta** (human): the expert founder: twenty-five years as a pharmacist, Generation X, starting a company, and Zara's mother - **The Guide** (human): the voice of the book: says what the book says, in its words - **The Agent** (agent): the reader's AI agent