Benefits I'm seeing from AI (Claude Code, mostly)

• Triage giant text backlog files for key items to prioritize

• Prototype implementations of gnarly refactorings

• Constrained optimization (pick a function, clean it up)

• Architecture review for existing design (what would a world-class implementation look like?)

• Constrained new feature development

Deep Dive: Better Feature Development

The other use cases are pretty straightforward, this one feels magical.

1. Put scattered thoughts into a chat, save to specs/feature/spec.md

2. Have AI build the feature by:

   1. Dynamically adding code for the feature (<script src="src/wip/newfeature.js">)
   2. Make several variations, controlled by a floating UI
   3. In the UI, rate the variations (store in localStorage)

3. Have AI review your ratings, then describe your goal (what you liked/didn't based on your ratings).

4. Have it make new variations, keep repeating until you like it

5. Integrate the work in progress newfeature.js into your actual app.

With this, I was able to knock out instacalc redesign tweaks.

Example screenshots

Playing with a variety of UI tweaks. I can toggle any of them on/off.