AI-First Engineering

Process Shifts

1. Planning quality matters more than typing speed.
2. Eval coverage matters more than anecdotal confidence.
3. Review focus shifts from syntax to system behavior.

Architecture Requirements

• explicit boundaries
• stable contracts
• typed interfaces
• deterministic tests

Code Review in AI-First Teams

• behavior regressions
• security assumptions
• data integrity
• failure handling
• rollout safety

Hiring and Evaluation Signals

• decompose ambiguous work cleanly
• define measurable acceptance criteria
• produce high-signal prompts and evals
• enforce risk controls under delivery pressure

Testing Standard

• required regression coverage for touched domains
• explicit edge-case assertions
• integration checks for interface boundaries