--- title: Why Most People Get the Workflow Wrong | daily.dev description: An argument for a deliberate AI-assisted coding workflow where developers verbalize and reason through decisions before writing any code or prompting an AI,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-most-people-get-the-workflow-wrong-o83jxyhcs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why Most People Get the Workflow Wrong | daily.dev og:description: An argument for a deliberate AI-assisted coding workflow where developers verbalize and reason through decisions before writing any code or prompting an AI,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-most-people-get-the-workflow-wrong-o83jxyhcs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/O83JXyhCs.png og:image:alt: Why Most People Get the Workflow Wrong 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. # Why Most People Get the Workflow Wrong **[JavaScript Mastery](https://daily.dev/sources/javascriptmastery)** · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An argument for a deliberate AI-assisted coding workflow where developers verbalize and reason through decisions before writing any code or prompting an AI, rather than blindly asking AI to build something and hoping it works. The approach frames developers as decision-makers first, with AI executing instructions afterward, and emphasizes revisiting the plan itself when things go wrong, not just patching the code. Promotes a video demonstration of this workflow in action. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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