Congratulations on completing AI coding for real engineers. You've worked through all the material.
This article summarizes the complete AI development process. We've covered seven phases throughout the course, and now we'll bring them all together.
The first step is the grill. This is where you interview yourself (or get interviewed) about an idea to harden it before turning it into a PRD.
Grilling often surfaces the need for research. You might need to explore third-party APIs, investigate tooling options, or see what's available in the ecosystem.
Sometimes research requires prototyping. You might pause the grilling session, build something quickly, then return to grilling with better information about where you're heading.
These first three steps culminate in a product requirements document (PRD). This is your destination document: a spec file that lives in your issues and can be reviewed by your team.
Once you know where you're going (the PRD), you need to figure out how to get there. Turn the PRD into individual tickets with blocking relationships.
Now you implement. Choose between human-in-the-loop (watching the agent work) or totally AFK (the agent works through all issues autonomously).
Finally, review the agent's work: