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by CompoundEyes 319 days ago
Domain knowledge is key I agree. I think we’re going to see waterfall development come back. Domain experts, project managers and engineers gathering requirements and planning architecture up front in order to create the ultra detailed spec needed for the agents to succeed. Between them they can write a CLAUDE.md file, way of working (“You will do TDD, update JIRA ticket like so”) and all the supporting context docs. There isn’t the penalty anymore for waterfall since course corrections aren’t as devastating or wasteful of dev hours.
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TDD seems to be a good strategy if you trust the AI not to cheat by writing tests that always pass.
You need to keep the TDD LLM and code LLM as a "ping pong pair" with you as the curator / moderator.