Weekend project. Five tools. Future arriving. Close tab. No smarter.

1. Brain dump

Write before prompt. Ugly prose. Half Bosnian, Slovenian and English. Thin dump = tiny feature or don’t understand yet. Big dump = better.

2. Debate placement

Must ask. Old module or new. Hand AI dump plus file tree. Force pushback. “Three reasons move it” beats “put it here.”

3. Read code

AI reads every file. Summarizes. Wrong summary = stop. Skip = hallucinated imports.

4. Risks twice

First pass polite. Paste back. Say “too safe.” Second pass good.

5. Spec

Short. What changes. What stays. What NOT building. “Not building” saves you.

6. Build

PR by PR. Read diff. Merge unread PR = AI stopped helping.

7. Execution

Code works on laptop. Users break it. Add to next dump.

Next feature, same loop. Mess up. You know drill.