Thank you for sharing this! I have been struggling to wrap my mind around how to handle and approach AI usage, and your post has done so much in terms of clarifying all of that for me.
There is so much more to the process than just writing code, and your list of explicit checkpoints for the AI-era pipeline is exactly what I have been looking for:
Grasping all of that in a solid list now, I can see the wall that I have had in my mind for the past few months now start to crack. I have and old project that's been collecting dust, and I am excited now to try and approach it both with fresh eyes, and a fresh pipeline.
Again, thank you so much for outlining all of this. This is exactly what I needed to read today.