Plan Before You Build

The expensive mistake is not bad code. It is building the wrong thing, very quickly, and then defending it for a month.

AI removed the cost of typing. It did not remove the cost of deciding.

So everyone types one line, gets four hundred lines back in ninety seconds, and only finds out on Thursday that the whole shape was wrong.

The fix is boring and it works:

Make it produce a plan before it writes anything,
Make it ask you questions instead of guessing,
Read the file list, because a file you did not expect means it misunderstood,
Reject the plan in one line and ask for a revision,
Approve one slice at a time 🔥

Ten minutes reading a plan beats four hours reading a diff. Every time.

I wrote the whole thing up. Five copy-paste planning prompts for a new feature, a refactor, a bug, a migration and a greenfield build. Plus the checklist for what a good plan contains and a worked before-and-after.

Free. No email wall.

Comment "PLAN" 👇 and I'll send it to your DMs.