Safe-by-default habits
Pull it together into reflexes that let you move fast without fear:
- Work on a , not directly on production. Branches are free; broken production is not.
- small, working states often. Frequent commits make rollback trivial.
- Always ask the AI to run what it wrote — tests, the app, the type checker.
- Keep one for the AI and one for yourself, so you can verify independently.
- Never let a change ship that you didn't read. Speed comes from good guardrails, not from skipping the review.
Guardrails don't slow you down — they're what let you say "yes, ship it" without a knot in your stomach. Set them up once, and the AI can sprint while the safety net catches the falls.