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jerryharri

Be careful of attention collapse. Details in a large governance file can get "forgotten" by the llm. It'll be extremely apologetic when you discover it's failed to follow some guardrails you specified, but it can still happen.
It's after we come down from the Vibe coding high that we realize we still need to ship working, high-quality code. The lessons are the same, but our muscle memory has to be re-oriented. How do we create estimates when AI is involved? In what ways do we redefine the information flow between Product and Engineering?
We're learning the lessons of Agile all over again.
'The post is quite waterfall-like. Writing a lot of docs and specs upfront then implementing' - It's only waterfall if the specs cover the entire system or app. If it's broken up into sub-systems or vertical slices, then it's much more Agile or Lean.