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Developer builds workflow to tame AI-assisted coding chaos
A solo developer spent a week building a small app with AI assistance and found the main challenge was context management, not coding. He developed a three-step loop: task brief, bounded instruction set, and final review. The workflow emphasizes documentation as project memory to keep AI-generated code reviewable and grounded.
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The piece offers a practical, skeptical take on AI coding tools, but its insights are based on a single developer's week-long experiment, not large-scale validation.
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