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The brain sandwich

Taking full advantage of AI without letting your engineering skills atrophy

angeliki
Oct 22, 20261 min read

terriblesoftware.org writes:


The idea is very simple, and can be summarized by: whenever you work on something, you should use: Your brain, and then AI, and then Your brain


The Brain Sandwich

The brain sandwich is a practical AI coding workflow: understand the problem, let an agent help, then verify and explain its work before sharing it.

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