ai-first-engineering

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Summary

Engineering operating model for teams shipping code with AI-assisted generation.

  • Emphasizes planning quality, evaluation coverage, and behavior-focused code review over traditional syntax checking and typing speed
  • Requires agent-friendly architectures with explicit boundaries, stable contracts, typed interfaces, and deterministic tests to minimize implicit behavior
  • Shifts review priorities to behavior regressions, security assumptions, data integrity, failure handling, and rollout safety
  • Raises testing standards for generated code with required regression coverage, explicit edge-case assertions, and integration checks across interface boundaries
  • Identifies key hiring signals: clean decomposition of ambiguous work, measurable acceptance criteria, high-signal prompts and evals, and risk control enforcement under delivery pressure
SKILL.md

AI-First Engineering

Use this skill when designing process, reviews, and architecture for teams shipping with AI-assisted code generation.

Process Shifts

  1. Planning quality matters more than typing speed.
  2. Eval coverage matters more than anecdotal confidence.
  3. Review focus shifts from syntax to system behavior.

Architecture Requirements

Prefer architectures that are agent-friendly:

  • explicit boundaries
  • stable contracts
  • typed interfaces
  • deterministic tests

Avoid implicit behavior spread across hidden conventions.

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