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A pull request by another name: what changed in v1.1.0
From v1.0.0 (2026-10-19, 570502ed5) to v1.1.0 (2026-10-27, db67c5ce1), paragraph by paragraph.
0 paragraphs added, 0 removed, 5 changed in place, 51 unchanged. About 0 words added and 254 removed. Insertions are marked like this, deletions like this; unchanged runs are folded to one line; figures appear as their file names.
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!shot gb-printed.webp | images/ | Release candidate 2,2 of Generation ZX Developers, printed and spiral-bound on a café table, with a pen for marking it up: Generation ZX Developers, GenAI Startup Edition, release candidate v2.0.0-rc2, 19 October 2026, page 1 of 168. This is the copy I am reading this morning, while the agents read the same text. Photographedphotographed by Dinis. | photo
17 unchanged paragraphs, under In short {#in-short}, Reading it twice {#reading}, Six editors and one rule {#editors}…
!shot rp-patches.webp | images/ | Seven patches,patches in priority order.order, Bodywith body words before and after for each part of release candidate 2: the opening, 11,120 to 8,982; hands-on 2026, 11,326 to 9,425; the frame and the job, 14,357 to 12,145; agents, judgement and how it was made, 11,085 to 9,986; building without a server and the long game, 15,134 to 13,320; the company, 11,644 to 10,347. The seventh patch works across the parts. The whole book goes from 74,666 to 64,351 words, about 215 pages, above the 60,000-word floor.2. | comparison
6 unchanged paragraphs, under The hands-on part {#hands-on}
!shot rp-overlap.webp | images/ | Argument chapters argue; hands-on chapters instruct. The share of each hands-on chapter's six-word runs also found in the earlier chapter itbefore follows,it, before and after the edit: chapter 30 against 13, 49% to 22%; 39 against 19, 37% to 10%; 33 against 7, 20% to 3%; 32 against 7, 18% to 4%; 35 against 16, 16% to 3%; 37 against 22, 13% to 7%; 36 against 12, 11% to 1%.edit. | comparison
3 unchanged paragraphs, under What fell between the parts {#between}
!shot rp-hole.webp | images/ | AThe hand-off isbetween onlychapters done when the other side has it. Chapter 12's editor cut the five steps12 and pointed to chapter 36; chapter 36's editor cut the eight steps36, and pointedhow to chapter 12. The steps were left in neither. Patchpatch 0007 puts the eight steps back in chapter 36, where the hands-on part instructs, and chapter 12 keeps the why.36. | concept
7 unchanged paragraphs, under The principles {#principles}, The book, drawn as itself {#cover}
!shot rp-cover.webp | images/ | Generation ZX Developers, the bookDevelopers as a graph: a proposal for the back cover. 41 chapters in a ring, sizedjoined by theirshared ideas,sources, 198 in all, and coloured by their part. 50 lines join chapters that share three or more sources. The argument chapters form a dense web; the hands-on chapters are barely joined to it, with 14 of the 50 lines, and eight of them name no ideas at all. Drawn by codedrawn from release candidate 2's front matter.2. | concept
16 unchanged paragraphs, under Why a vault and not a pull request {#vault}, What happens next {#next}, What this does not claim {#limits}…