--- title: Miscellaneous Thoughts About Building Stuff with AI in... description: Brent Ozar shares practical lessons from heavy AI use in mid-2026, focusing on process over prompting. Key techniques include adversarial development... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/miscellaneous-thoughts-about-building-stuff-with-ai-in-july-2026-q7v9rokod twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Miscellaneous Thoughts About Building Stuff with AI in July 2026 | daily.dev og:description: Brent Ozar shares practical lessons from heavy AI use in mid-2026, focusing on process over prompting. Key techniques include adversarial development... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/miscellaneous-thoughts-about-building-stuff-with-ai-in-july-2026-q7v9rokod og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Q7V9roKOd.png og:image:alt: Miscellaneous Thoughts About Building Stuff with AI in July 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Miscellaneous Thoughts About Building Stuff with AI in July 2026 **[Brent Ozar](https://daily.dev/sources/brentozar)** · 15 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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