My hot take from chatting to @poteto is that we should use MORE abstractions in the AI age You can use them (combined with harsh lint rules) to reduce the design space available to the agent and constrain them only to good decisions. Combined with the fact that high-leverage ab…↗

This is aside from the other key "software brain" problems of Codex and Code: dividing all work into front-end and back-end design, solving for the general case in a repeatable way, not testing or exploring idea spaces, testing for technical correctness but not other aspects...↗

Every great craftsman I've ever known, from design to furniture to food, knows that the process and tools with which you make the work is as important as the work itself. I share more about how I think and apply this to software design at interfacecraft.dev↗

Why on earth would you want to revert to Spec-Driven Development? Yes, agents are way faster at writing code. And (some) humans are better at system thinking. But we also suck at planning. Any experienced engineer knows you simply cannot sit down, write the specs and then write…↗

🤿 @rafahari has been one of my favorite designers to follow for years and I finally got to interview him :) the convo is a deep dive into creating software that makes people FEEL something and it's a fun one 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=3rnhlZ…↗