No Plan Survives Contact With the Enemy (Reality)

Coding-agent users often fall between planning detailed specifications with an agent and rapidly iterating from short prompts, reflecting a longstanding product-development tension rather than a clear right approach. While upfront plans, PRDs, and slides can establish direction, prototypes often reveal the most valuable information: unexpected customer behavior, scaling failures, design changes, workarounds, contentious review issues, and meaningful metrics. Because agents can perform much of the experimentation, teams can ask them to build first and then surface the practical lessons and design implications, making prototypes a way to deepen and improve plans.

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