
The Argument: How Far You Can Actually Get With AI Tools Before You Need a Developer
The Argument is a recurring column where we take a clear position on how technical work should be done — and make the case for it.
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The Argument is a recurring column where we take a clear position on how technical work should be done — and make the case for it.

There's a version of this post where I tell you I discovered a productivity hack. That's not what this is. This is about a problem I've had since day one of running Def0x — one I understood intellectually but couldn't fix behaviorally. And about what changed when I stopped trying to fix the behavior and changed the environment instead.