Working with AI Coding Tools
The workflow question these loops now ask out loud — how you use agents, and where you don't.
5 topics
An AI-assisted coding workflow
Treat the model as a fast junior with perfect recall and no accountability — give it context and a verifiable goal, and keep the review burden on you.
core25 minSpecs & delegating to agents
Delegating a whole task means writing the acceptance criteria first, bounding what the agent can touch, and giving it a way to check its own work.
core22 minReviewing AI-generated code
Generated code is plausible by construction, so review it for invented APIs, missing edge cases, and dependencies you didn't ask for — and never merge what you can't explain.
core22 minWhere AI coding tools fail
They fail where the necessary information isn't in the context — system-wide invariants, production behaviour, and taste about what shouldn't be built.
core20 minTalking about your AI workflow
Answer with a concrete workflow, one thing it made possible, and one place you deliberately don't use it — enthusiasm and refusal both read as unexamined.
core18 min