Ashay Tikekar

greenfield AI tools: "rebuild your app with AI!" (6 months, high risk) brownfield AI tools: "spec your next change, ship it safely" (1 day, low risk, repeatable) OpenSpec delivers ROI from day 1, not month 6. #SpecDriven #openspec #ai #aicoding

the fastest way to get a wrong answer from AI: describe your code from memory. the fastest way to get a right one: cmd+C, cmd+V. #AI #SoftwareEngineering

your next job won't be "build an app from scratch with AI." it'll be "add this feature to a 10-year-old codebase without breaking prod." train for the job you'll actually have. #DevLife #OpenSpec #ai #aicoding

hot take: 90% of "AI gave me a bad answer" complaints are actually "I described my problem instead of pasting it" complaints. fidelity matters. paste the source. #AI #SoftwareEngineering

"the error says X" — no it doesn't. paste the actual error. what you think it says and what it actually says are two different things. #AI #SoftwareEngineering

your brain's summary of the error: "something about permissions" the actual error: "EACCES: permission denied, open '/var/log/app.log'" one of these is debuggable. paste that one. #AI #SoftwareEngineering

if you don't paste it, it doesn't exist. not to AI. not to your coworker. not to future you reading this slack thread at 3 AM. #AI #SoftwareEngineering

stop typing "I have a function that takes a list and returns..." and start pasting the function. the 3 seconds you save typing costs you 30 minutes of wrong answers. #AI #SoftwareEngineering

primary sources > summaries. in code reviews: paste the diff. in debugging: paste the trace. in architecture: paste the diagram. your paraphrase lost the signal. #AI #SoftwareEngineering

the difference between a 10-minute AI debug session and a 10-second one: pasting the actual error instead of saying "it doesn't work." #AI #SoftwareEngineering