AI coding assistants are helping teams create software faster than ever. But to turn that speed into real innovation, organizations must go beyond writing code and deliver software quickly, securely, and reliably.

While AI-assisted coding is now mainstream, what happens after the code is written is still catching up. AI-Native Software Delivery is your practical guide to applying AI across the entire delivery lifecycle, from commit to production and beyond.

Written for software engineers, DevOps leaders, and tech executives, this book explores how leading teams are using AI to streamline CI/CD, manage cloud costs, strengthen security, and eliminate operational toil. The book also uncovers the risks of brittle automation and shows you how to avoid building systems that don't scale.

You'll learn how to:

• Integrate AI across delivery workflows to accelerate time to value
• Avoid common pitfalls of fragmented automation strategies
• Adopt DevSecOps principles that scale with your team
• Apply real-world practices in AIOps, chaos engineering, and SRE
• Future-proof your delivery with intelligent pipelines and feedback loops

Whether you're evolving a legacy delivery process or designing a new platform, this guide will help you lead your organization into the AI-native future of software delivery.

Nick Durkin is Field CTO for Harness, with responsibility for the organization's worldwide field engineering team, post-sales engineering team, and a portion of the platform. Eric Minick is Senior Director of DevOps Solutions at Harness, with a focus on enabling AI-native pipelines, and developer experience. Chinmay Gaikwad is Director of Product Marketing at Harness, where he combines deep AI-native DevOps and AppSec expertise with strategic marketing leadership.