In my own projects I actually front-load a lot of the planning. The pipeline behind codn.dev is a good example of that — the planning phase was longer than the actual prompting.
I started with a very simple Astro project and then gradually designed the publishing workflow around it: content schema, frontmatter structure, SEO generation, deployment pipeline, etc. Only after that foundation existed did I start using LLMs to help with parts of the implementation.
The pattern I describe in the article is less about "one prompt shipping", and more about what happens once the feedback loop becomes very fast. Even with a plan in place, the prompt → result → tweak cycle can become surprisingly sticky.
In my own projects I actually front-load a lot of the planning. The pipeline behind codn.dev is a good example of that — the planning phase was longer than the actual prompting.
I started with a very simple Astro project and then gradually designed the publishing workflow around it: content schema, frontmatter structure, SEO generation, deployment pipeline, etc. Only after that foundation existed did I start using LLMs to help with parts of the implementation.
The pattern I describe in the article is less about "one prompt shipping", and more about what happens once the feedback loop becomes very fast. Even with a plan in place, the prompt → result → tweak cycle can become surprisingly sticky.