About
I went from writing the specifications to building the systems those specifications described.
Facts
The person
TODO: owner to provide
The personal narrative. Owner to write. Do not fabricate.
How I work with AI
It's my job title, so I'll be specific about it. Generating code is the easy part now; knowing what not to hand over is the job.
I delegate
Boilerplate, first-draft tests, and mechanical refactors: work where I already know the answer and just need it typed out.
I don't delegate
Architecture, and the boundaries between parts. In BriefPilot the AI provider sits behind one interface I designed, so a model can be swapped without touching anything else.
I review everything
I read every diff, and mypy --strict plus CI catch what I miss. When the model wasn't sure what a document was, I made it return nothing rather than a confident guess.
The path
- 2024
Freelance developer
Shipping real things for real clients
- 2025
Business analyst
Learning to scope a system before building it
- 2025
Project coordinator
Shipping with a team, on deadlines
- 2026
PM & automation
Building the tools I used to spec
- 2026
Data & GenAI engineer, vountain
Where I am now
Every step added the next skill. I went from writing the specifications to building the systems those specifications described.