Miscellaneous Thoughts About Building Stuff with AI in July 2026

Brent Ozar shares practical lessons from heavy AI use in mid-2026, focusing on process over prompting. Key techniques include adversarial development (alternating LLMs for spec writing, code writing, and review), using expensive models for design and cheap ones for execution, building self-troubleshooting dashboards, defining clear finish lines for every task, using hooks to enforce workflows, and assigning distinct voice/personality files per project. He also covers leftover-credit code reviews, news pages to track autonomous LLM changes, and the importance of experimenting as model quality shifts frequently.

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