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2026-03-21 16:49
Why I Started Splitting Planning, Implementation, Testing, and Documentation in AI Workflows
While testing different AI coding tools, I kept running into two recurring problems.
The first one was cost. Using the same model to plan, implement, review, test, and document does not make much sense. Not every stage requires the same level of reasoning.
The second problem was more important: when a single agent does everything inside one long conversation, context starts to get polluted. It b...