Alasdair Allan
"Documentation-First Programming," by me for Negroni Venture Studios, If AI writes the code, what does the human write? The part of the job most developers hate has now become the whole job. #LLM #AI #Documentation https://negroniventurestudios.com/2026/05/19/documentation-first-programming/
Documentation-first programming

I find it somewhat ironic that the part of the job that most developers hate is about to become the whole job. Because, at least as far as I can figure out, we are now in the era of documentation-first programming. Act I: The specification is the program A few months ago I started building […]

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Show threadTTimoMay 19
@aallan some great insights there - very well researched!
Show threadsynlogic4242May 19
@aallan I like the ideal of "write the README. then bring its claims to life". or RDD. and agreed, its helpful whether AI is involved or not. I just do a spiral/iterative variant on it. its impossible-to-hard/rare to be able to truly write the full final README in advance, before the full final code/system exists. but we can iterate and sculpt towards it, commit by commit