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Designing AI Engineering Tools for Repeated Use
AI tooling should optimize for inspection, comparison, and iteration instead of one-off magic moments.
Developer ToolsLLMs
The best engineering tools reduce cognitive overhead during repeated workflows. For AI systems, that means making context, prompts, outputs, latency, and regressions visible without forcing the user into a maze.
Prefer Comparison
Most useful AI engineering work is comparative: one prompt against another, one model against another, one retrieval policy against another.
Interfaces should make those comparisons cheap.