Addy Osmani's LLM Coding Workflow for 2026

Detailed, opinionated workflow from a Google engineer: draft a spec.md before any code, break implementation into file-level tasks, context-pack the model with relevant files (tools like gitingest help), commit after each chunk as a checkpoint, and maintain a CLAUDE.md rules file to steer model behavior to your team's coding style. The core principle: AI is your pair programmer, not your replacement — you stay the director.

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Sources: Addy Osmani's Blog