The "tasks as issues" pattern from this week's Ask HN dev-stack thread

The current Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? thread surfaces a consistent winning pattern: write each unit of work like a GitHub issue (background, goal, acceptance criteria, constraints, test command) instead of a casual chat, and keep chunks small enough to fit in context and be reviewed. Practitioners pair this with small commits and good messages so that when an agent breaks something across five changes, you can bisect to the culprit. It's a low-effort habit that meaningfully reduces agent "off the rails" output.

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Sources: Hacker News