📰 Dev.to · Xu Bian

If AI makes the same mistake repeatedly in the same project, the problem is usually not just the model.

Many AI workflows treat human-in-the-loop as a final approval step.

The most dangerous sentence in AI delivery is: \"It is done.\"

If AI is going to work inside a real project, it should not freely modify your main working directory.

Many AI task failures do not happen because the model cannot modify code. They happen because the model reads the wrong context.

The most common risk in AI-assisted development is not that the model cannot write code. It is that the model starts writing code too early.

Many people use AI for coding by placing the whole workflow inside one chat: describe the task, ask the agent to read the repository, edit files, run tests, and

Explains why AI design collaboration needs project workspaces, structured truth, and resumable project state instead of chat history alone.

Proposes a rule precedence model for product defaults, designer profiles, project rules, and explicit session instructions in AI design workbenches.

Explains how screenshots, renderings, and top views should become structured repair actions instead of another pile of untracked opinions.

Discusses how AI moves designer value from low-level execution toward goals, constraints, feedback, and version judgment.

Explains why AI tools for designers should behave as durable workbenches, not just chatbots, image generators, or automatic drafting plugins.

An architecture walkthrough explaining how Codex or another agent CLI can use runtime skills, an MCP server, a SketchUp Ruby bridge, and a structured design mod

A product and workflow essay arguing that AI should reduce low-level drafting work so designers can focus on intent, judgment, constraints, and tradeoffs.

Using SketchUp Agent Harness as the example, this essay explains why AI design tools need an editable, verifiable, repairable, replayable structured source of t

An early-stage open-source project that connects natural-language agents, an MCP server, a SketchUp Ruby bridge, structured design models, and runtime skills in