About the Author

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Michael Borck is a software developer and educator working at the intersection of human expertise and artificial intelligence. He teaches applied AI and AI in business at Curtin University, and runs The Human Edge masterclasses through Curtin Executive Education.

Speak Software: Programming at the Natural-Language Layer is for readers who will never write code by hand. It treats programming as a management job: you describe what you want, an AI agent builds it, and your work is specification, verification, decomposition, and taste. The hands-on companion is the Speak Software programming labs, a free set of client-brief exercises at michael-borck.github.io/programming-labs. The labs supply the doing; this book supplies the why, the guardrails, and the harness the labs leave out, including the slop gate, the evidence-trio linter, and the environment pre-flight in this book’s tools/ folder.

His earlier book, Conversation, Not Delegation, argues for treating AI as a thinking partner you converse with. The Python track in this series teaches the language itself for readers who want it under their fingers. Speak Software takes the other interface: no syntax, and a department of one to run instead.

Michael builds educational software and resources, and writes about the 80/20 principle in learning and professional judgement.

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