About this book
You don't need a 47-page specification. You need an intent and a feedback loop. Build on Instinct is a field guide for the post-specification era—where AI handles the boilerplate and you handle the vision. It's about trading upfront planning for rapid iteration, replacing documentation with conversation, and trusting that the fastest path to "done" runs through "good enough for now." Part manifesto, part methodology, part late-night debugging memoir. Covers prompt engineering as a dialogue (not a monologue), when to trust AI output (and when to trust your gut), the art of productive failure, and why "just one more feature" is both a trap and a lifestyle. Written live, across 200+ conversations with Claude. Some chapters had outlines. The rest? Improvisation.