@vikingmute: Great workflow, now it's also my main workflow for developing new features and new ideas: Grill - let AI fiercely question every detail until clear -> Research - separately analyze difficult areas and create a research document (optional) -> PRD - gen...
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VikingMute shares their main workflow for developing new features and ideas: using AI (Grill) to drill down on details, Research to analyze difficulties, generating a PRD, breaking it into independent Issues, step-by-step implementation, and finally Review. This is a supplement to Matt Pocock's seven-stage AI development method.
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Great process, now it’s also my main workflow for developing new features and ideas:
Grill – let AI grill you on details until clear
-> Research – analyze problem areas separately and create a research document (optional)
-> PRD – generate a detailed requirements document
-> Issues – break the PRD into independent tickets with dependencies
-> Implement – code implementation, note: work independently, split into tickets + iterate to avoid too much context
-> Finally Review, verify
Matt Pocock (@mattpocockuk):
Here are my 7 phases of AI-powered development.I’ve been thinking that the pre-PRD phase needs more structure. You need to figure out the shape of the design tree first, before then walking down it with higher-fidelity prototypes.
In other words, /grill-with-docs needs to
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