Shipping with AI
I use prompts to set the direction and skills to make the useful parts repeatable. This is how Claude Code and Codex fit into the rest of my work.
The first prompt asks for research, a plan, phases, and subagents. Skills take care of the repeated work after that: review, simplification, UI checks, releases, and PRs.
Chapters
Chapter 1
The kickoff prompt
The first prompt does most of the steering.
Chapter 2
Taste is the job
A working version is where the editing starts.
Chapter 3
Turn prompts into skills
If I repeat a prompt, it becomes a skill.
Chapter 4
The skipped edit
Users feel a skipped edit before they can name it.
Chapter 5
Ship at 80 percent
You win by finding out faster.
Chapter 6
How I actually use AI
The ten lines I actually run.