When the Dungeon Gets Bigger
The first book stayed close to developers. Volume II is about what happens when the AI conversation moves beyond the dev team.
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Volume 2
The Slop Codex · Book 2 of 3
NPCs, Monsters, and Anti-Patterns at Scale
Volume II moves up a level: from individual developers to the organizational cast. FinOps NPCs, vendor bards, court sorcerers, and four monsters that emerge when teams scale AI adoption without scaling judgment.
- The organizational NPCs — executives, FinOps, vendors, architects, infosec
- Four monsters at scale: the Cost Singularity, the Infinite Backlog Engine, and more
- Why accountability gets fuzzy exactly when autonomy gets cheap
- The conversations to have before the AI bill arrives
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From the bestiary of Volume 2
Every volume adds its own cast to the field guide. Meet a few of them — the full entries live in the bestiary.
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The Court Sorcerer
Whispering AI promises into executive ears
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The Vendor Bard
Our roadmap is your destiny
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The Dashboard Necromancer
I have a dashboard for that
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The Cost Singularity
The bill that learned to grow on its own
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The Autonomy Mirage
It looks self-driving until you check who's steering
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The Avalanche Skeptic
The bill is small — what could go wrong?
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Meet the Cost Singularity
You do not feel yourself cross the event horizon. The distance between useful experiment and infrastructure is traveled in small, reasonable steps.
Read excerpt →The Infinite Backlog Engine Is Always Producing
AI makes proposing almost free. The cost of deciding remains, and the gap fills roadmaps with polished options nobody has actually chosen.
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Each volume stands alone, and the vocabulary compounds across the series.