Hey, I’ve watched some of your talks on YouTube and they have generally felt right and influenced my thinking as to how to navigate software engineering in this era. I appreciate you engaging here!
I read your piece here and again I appreciate and agree with your main points. You have a section here titled “30 minutes of planning saves hours of review” — but I find it hard to believe that you are doing all this pre-work of creating specs (ai-assisted) at various levels, down to the level of function signatures and such, and this whole thing only takes you 30 minutes. Is that what you meant? Can you talk a bit about how long this process actually takes, or if it is really only 30 minutes, how you pull that off?
I use Google Docs for almost everything these days. At a basic level, you can use it as plain text + easy hypertext via CMD+k. That by itself is very powerful. I don’t know if there is another product that makes it so easy to create hyper text. (They could make that even easier if they had a hot key to “copy a shareable url to this doc to the clipboard” or similar.) The downside I suppose is that your data is in Google’s cloud. Personally, I think that is a manageable trade off for my use cases, but I get that it may not work for everyone.
I read your piece here and again I appreciate and agree with your main points. You have a section here titled “30 minutes of planning saves hours of review” — but I find it hard to believe that you are doing all this pre-work of creating specs (ai-assisted) at various levels, down to the level of function signatures and such, and this whole thing only takes you 30 minutes. Is that what you meant? Can you talk a bit about how long this process actually takes, or if it is really only 30 minutes, how you pull that off?