Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age: Leveraging Experience for Better Results
How seasoned developers can achieve great results with AI coding agents through well-structured requirements, tool-based guard rails, and file-based keyframing.
tl;dr
Senior engineering experience is more valuable than ever with AI coding assistants. Success requires three key practices: well-structured requirements, tool-based guard rails like linting and testing, and file-based keyframing with stubs instead of letting AI create files freely.
My Thoughts
Well-structured Requirements, Tool-based Guard Rails, and File-based Keyframing. Those are the most important things. Lay out all the details you need, provide it a way of self-check like linting / testing and instead of letting it create files like crazy, provide stubs and guidelines so that it just fill gaps.
It remains interesting for green field projects or high end finishers. But this should save hours and hours of work.
This is my personal commentary on the original article. Please read the original article for the full context.