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ABOUT THE BOOK

The Bottleneck Is Never the Stack: Building Software in the Agentic Era
By Vinny Carpenter. Brookfield Press, June 28, 2026. 152 pages.
Kindle (ISBN 979-8-9964640-1-2), paperback (ISBN 979-8-9964640-0-5), and hardcover (ISBN 979-8-9964640-2-9).

Execution got cheaper. Clarity did not. AI did not create the real bottleneck in software; it made the old one impossible to hide. The Bottleneck Is Never the Stack is a collection of essays about building software when agents become part of the delivery system. It argues that the next advantage will not come from chasing the newest tool, model, framework, or cloud service. It will come from clearer specs, stronger systems, better judgment, and operating models that make good decisions repeatable.
