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I delegate all kinds of deep analysis to the AI, but it's to create detailed plans with specific implementation steps and validation criteria, backed by data in reproducible reports (i.e. "generate a script to generate this json data and another to render this data"). Plans have a specific goal that is reflected in the report ("migrated total should be 100%"). It's still an iterative process, the generators and plans have to be refined as it misses edge cases, but that's plans in general, AI or no.

It takes a good hour or two to draw up the plans, but it's the kind of thing that would take me all day to do, possibly several as my ADHD brain rebels against the tedium. AI can do yeomans work when it just wings it, and sometimes I have just pointed at a task and did it in one shot, but they work best when they have detailed plans. Plus it's really satisfying to be able to point at the plan doc and literally just say "make it so".



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