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Lean and agile methodology exists to answer questions you don’t know the answer to. You ship early and ship often, learning from real users, then adjust based on what you’ve learned. It’s a brilliant tool for avoiding work that isn’t valuable — for finding out what you didn’t know you didn’t know.

I’m building a meal planner for tired parents — I’m one of them, and I use it every week to figure out what we’re eating. One human. No budget. Limited evening time. Every task — defining what to build, planning how to build it, building it, telling people it exists — is mine. Everything is serial, and there’s no one to hand a ticket to or give me a review.

For a while I’ve been “experimenting” with AI-assisted development; which meant opening a chat window, describing what I wanted, and hoping for the best. This is about what I built to make it more reliable than that — and how every fix turned out to be something good engineering teams already do.