Respecting intermediates: from chemistry lab to spec-driven development
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Having spent many years in an organic chemistry lab taught me a workflow: research the literature, respect intermediates, verify before proceeding. When I applied that same pattern to building a Chrome extension, it felt natural — and worked surprisingly well with AI tools. Deciding first, then coding, kept the hard thinking cheap and made AI an accelerant instead of a source of thrashing.
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