Build with AI. Keep your judgment.
Turn your product brief into small, reviewable working slices.
The idea
AI can help draft code, explain unfamiliar files, and suggest fixes. You still own the behavior, data handling, and quality. Build one complete slice at a time so you can see whether the product works.
Put it into practice
Specify one feature, its acceptance criteria, and the files it may change. Read the change, run it, test the real flow, and commit a working checkpoint before adding more. Keep secrets out of client code and prompts.
First make pasted text appear in an editable result. Next add a server-side summarization call. Then add error recovery. Do not ask for the entire product, account system, and payments in one opaque change.
Use AI thoughtfully
Ask the coding assistant to explain assumptions, identify risky changes, and propose verification steps. Use a separate review pass and verify results yourself.
Your checkpoint
Can you explain what changed, reproduce the main behavior, and undo the change?
Write your answer to the checkpoint. Notes stay in this browser.