Building software for AI to write

2025-09-18 • anni chen

Building software that's easy for AI to write.

  1. have documented standard & practices
  2. have simple, reproducible environments
  3. have accessible and automatic testing infra
  4. establish clear boundaries
  5. clearly define the task and work
  • AI talks like a human, but it is still a machine
  • prompts matter, be detailed and specific
  • agents aren't all knowing, they're a partner
  • explore directions with multiple agents
  • different isn't inherently better or worse
  • start and kill agents frequently
  • have it work just like you do
  • start with writing code
  • write a rules file
  • define-create-refine loop