The Art of Agents: Sun Tzu's Principles for...

By Jacob Verhoeks, March 2026 The cost of building software has collapsed. Claude Code ships features in minutes. Codex opens pull requests while you sleep. Cursor and Windsurf turn IDEs into conversation partners. The cost of knowing what to build has not changed at all. That gap is where The Art of Agents lives. Thirteen chapters mapping Sun Tzu's Art of War to the discipline of building agentic AI systems that actually work in production. The Thesis You don't spec then build. You build to dis