AI-assisted development is changing the workflow

AI is changing more than the act of writing code.

It is changing the surrounding development process as well. The specification becomes the artefact that matters, review becomes the bottleneck, and the loop between an idea and something running gets very short.

Example diagram

flowchart LR
    A[Specification] --> B[Development]
    B --> C[Review]
    C --> D[Test]
    D --> E[Refine]
    E --> A

Code still needs to be read

const posts = files
  .map(parseFrontmatter)
  .filter((post) => !post.draft)
  .sort((a, b) => b.date - a.date);

The volume of generated code goes up, so the value of code that is obvious on first reading goes up with it.

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