I spent a week trying to make AI-assisted development less chaotic.

Short summary

After a week building with AI coding tools, David developed a lightweight workflow to manage context drift: Task Brief (planning), Codex Contract (bounded agent instructions), and Final Review (validation plus documentation updates). Core insight: AI-assisted development is a context-management problem; live documentation as project memory prevents scope drift and keeps work reviewable even with autonomous coding agents.

• •Context drift from AI coding agents is the core challenge—not the coding speed itself
• •Three-step workflow (Task Brief → Codex Contract → Final Review) keeps AI agents bounded and work reviewable
• •Live documentation updated during development, not after, serves as project memory and prevents scope creep

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