The name of the game is "context refinement" - some call it context engineering. I like to think that the real AI-first engineers are now doing context refinement to "line up shots". When you have gotten enough confidence, that's when we take that shot.

It’s much better to have two or three engineers who can design at this high level, working on well-defined but isolated pieces of functionality, than it is to have a large, mixed team. It’s hard to have some team members coding like this and others coding by hand, and it’s impossible to mix that in one repo. The models aren’t trusted - code has to... See more