Many people trying to develop software treat AI as magic pixie dust they can sprinkle on a problem to make it go away. For coding, this as "AI-led engineering." The literature is rife with the failures of this.
Instead, I argue that we need to bring back well-known engineering best practices and treat AI as a tool to support them. This is "engineering-led AI." I created a free, online tutorial to explain this approach. A year and a half in development, but created as a happy accident of research, this approach to software development with AI requires experienced developers and leads to code that, while not perfect, is better than what I find engineering teams in many companies produce.
My background: I started programming in 1982, programming in many different languages, and am currently working with 225+ developers to help them improve their technical maturity, including with AI-assisted coding.
And for anyone who asks, my personal setup is Claude Code with Superpowers, Ponytail, PAAD (https://github.com/Ovid/paad), and some personal skills. My professional setup is Kiro with PAAD and some personal skills and powers.
Many people trying to develop software treat AI as magic pixie dust they can sprinkle on a problem to make it go away. For coding, this as "AI-led engineering." The literature is rife with the failures of this.
Instead, I argue that we need to bring back well-known engineering best practices and treat AI as a tool to support them. This is "engineering-led AI." I created a free, online tutorial to explain this approach. A year and a half in development, but created as a happy accident of research, this approach to software development with AI requires experienced developers and leads to code that, while not perfect, is better than what I find engineering teams in many companies produce.
My background: I started programming in 1982, programming in many different languages, and am currently working with 225+ developers to help them improve their technical maturity, including with AI-assisted coding.
And for anyone who asks, my personal setup is Claude Code with Superpowers, Ponytail, PAAD (https://github.com/Ovid/paad), and some personal skills. My professional setup is Kiro with PAAD and some personal skills and powers.
Side note: I'm quitting Reddit. I need to come back here. This is why: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vj72hj/how_to_wr...