Fabricate, Collaborate, Elaborate, Delegate, Validate: Why My Bootstrapping Command Produces Better One-Shot Code (opens in new tab)

The right consistent process saves your time and energy and your AI collaborator's context window and token budget. Many AI coding sessions follow the same arc. The first hour is great. The model is sharp, the code is clean, the direction is clear. By hour three, something has gone wrong. The model contradicts an earlier decision. The file structure it's generating doesn't match what exists. The test it writes assumes a pattern that was deprecated two features ago. You didn't change models. Y...