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AI Developer Workflows

It's a brand new world. Suddenly, we find ourselves less writing code line by line, and more writing plans, coordinating agents, and building workflows. There's a lot to learn. But we gotcha!

In this series, each episode will demonstrate one potential AI workflow that you might adopt in your own projects. Check back often, as we'll be adding new episodes every month.

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3
Run Time
47m
Difficulty
Intermediate
Last Updated
Feb 2, 2026
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  1. Github Workflows (3)

    1. While You Were Sleeping

      What if we could build a nightshift process that works through your GitHub issues while you sleep? Pretty cool, yeah? Let's do it!

    2. Refactoring AI

      The current trend is to boldly declare that we're now post-IDE. As they'd put it, Claude Code or Codex are the new programming environments. But I don't know. Do you truly want to let AI have its way with your most important projects...with no supervision at all?

    3. Two Models. One Feature.

      I will often have one model implement a feature, and then pass that work off to a second model for a full code review.

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