Building a Personal AI Factory

Thanks for the writeup!

I talked about a similar, but slightly simpler workflow in my post on "Vibe Specs".

https://lukebechtel.com/blog/vibe-speccing

I use these rules in all my codebases now. They essentially cause the AI to do two things differently:

(1) ask me questions first (2) Create a `spec.md` doc, before writing any code.

Seems not too dissimilar from yours, but I limit it to a single LLM

I guess a lot of us are trying this (naturally) as solo devs, where we can take an engineering-first mindset and build a machine or factory that spits out gizmos. I haven't gotten to the finish line, mostly because for me, the holy grail is code confidence via e2e tests that the agent generated (separately, not alongside the implementation).

Totally. Yeah I think your approach is a solid take!

Claude Code now handles this natively with “plan mode”. Bit slow and annoying to do it manually with .md files in my opinion.

Yeah just learned about this!

The md files are actually pretty great for shareability, versioning, and picking up where you left off.