The Developer --> Designer switch
Intro A few months ago I had to work on a complex application on AWS: a React frontend on Amplify, several Lambda functions, Bedrock with AgentCore, Knowledge Bases, and Prompt Management. I was in a hurry, and the temptation was overwhelming: open Claude Code, throw in a generic prompt, and hope it would “figure it out.” Instead, I did something different — I wrote specifications, reviewed them, spent an entire day on it — and that day it felt like I hadn’t accomplished anything....