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Discovering the book: what changed in v1.2.0
From v1.1.0 (2026-10-19, 2a5119a1d) to v1.2.0 (2026-10-27, db67c5ce1), paragraph by paragraph.
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!shot gb-timeline.webp | images/ | One evening, one book site. Lanes for Dinis, the journalist, the librarian, the seven chapter writers, the storyboards, the editor with the synthetic readers, and the illustrator and designer, onsite: a timeline of the work, from 21:27 on 18 October to 04:33 on 19 October, London time. The first release candidate lands at 01:47; the Gen ZX memo follows at 01:51 and the title decision at 02:06; the second release candidate, rewritten under the new frame, lands at 02:46. | timeline
12 unchanged paragraphs, under In short {#in-short}, The evening {#evening}, What was built {#built}
!shot gb-home.webp | images/ | The home page of gen-z-developers.sgit.ai at site v0.2.33: the 2018 cover, the lines from it,cover and four ways in: the second edition's release candidate, the first edition as published, the paperback on Amazon, and the free version on Leanpub.in. | screenshot
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!shot gb-rc2.webp | images/ | The second edition's release candidate 2: Generation ZX Developers (GenAI Startup Edition), 41 chapters, 73,314 words, 198 ideas written in, 47 notes for Dinis; marked as a release candidate, not a version, and frozen. | screenshot
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!shot gb-reader.webp | images/ | Reading release candidate 2 on the site: the contents on the left, thecontents, chapter in the middle,and the chapter's graphgraph, on the right, and at the topwith the reading meter,meter the balance, the price of the chapter, and review mode.above. | screenshot
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!shot gb-graph.webp | images/ | The book as a graph: 857 nodes and 1,742 edges, the 2018 book's files, the sources (articles and decisions) and the ideas, with filters for each idea's state and destination. | screenshot
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!shot gb-covers.webp | images/ | Three covers for Generation ZX Developers (GenAI Startup Edition), drawn by code into SVG, each in three formats: ZX, the book as a graph, and one letter more, the 2018 cover with an X added.formats. | screenshot
15 unchanged paragraphs, under The players {#players}, The workflow {#workflow}
!shot gb-printed.webp | images/ | Release candidate 2, printed and spiral-bound on a café table the next morning, with a pen for marking it up: Generation ZX Developers, GenAI Startup Edition, second edition, release candidate v2.0.0-rc2,on 19 October 2026, page 1 of 168. Photographedphotographed by Dinis. | photo
!shot gb-decisions.webp | images/ | The decisions page: fifteen decisions in two days, each with who decided, what was said, what it meanssaid and what it supersedes, from 001 (the 2018 text is CC BY) to 014 (the title is Generation ZX Developers, GenAI Startup Edition) and 015.supersedes. | screenshot
11 unchanged paragraphs, under The positioning arrived after the first draft {#discovered}, What worked {#worked}
!shot gb-readers.webp | images/ | Synthetic readers: invented readers who read release candidate 2 and are interviewed. NobodyAll would buyof it today; four of the five would once the company chapters are written. Everything in the studies is invented; every quote a reader cites is checked against the chapter.invented. | screenshot
12 unchanged paragraphs, under What is still open {#open}, What this does not claim {#limits}, Where this comes from {#sources}