Books and handbooks

O Engenheiro Livre

“The Free Engineer”

AI, Code and Reclaiming Professional Autonomy

by Carlos Eduardo Gonçalves Keese

Written in Portuguese.

A book about the comfortable cage designers have been placed in — and about how to get out of it without giving up the tools that work. It starts from a concrete observation: the price of computing power is no longer measured in money per licence but in structural dependence. The more power artificial intelligence delivers, the deeper the professional sinks into the silo that delivers it.

• A six-lock test — data, tools, capability, intelligence, income and domain — to measure, in ten minutes, how much of your craft depends on others. You take it again at the end of the book.
• The history of the enclosure: from the drawing board to CAD, from CAD to proprietary formats, from formats to cloud subscriptions, and from the cloud to the copilot that only works inside it.
• The programmer-designer as a hybrid species, and CAD splitting between open protocols and digital fiefdoms.
• AI as a tool, not an owner — including what it costs when the relationship flips.
• A practical appendix, from the first line of code to the first automation that saves your day.

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