Context
The workshop was designed as a repo-backed delivery session rather than a slide exercise. The group worked from written artifacts, prompt packs, schedule checkpoints, and stop conditions so decisions were explicit and implementation work stayed aligned.
The target was a small but credible application slice: an authenticated user flow where a domain user could create or open a record, submit free text, receive an AI-assisted draft, review it, approve it, and see the approved event in a timeline.
Topics covered
- Freezing scope around one credible demo path
- Using AI assistance without letting the workshop drift into uncontrolled exploration
- Turning product intent into architecture, contracts, and bounded work items
- Splitting implementation across scaffold reliability, backend, and frontend tracks
- Verifying the slice with explicit pass/fail criteria and a demo script
Outputs
- A written scope brief with explicit in-scope and out-of-scope decisions
- A minimal architecture and work decomposition
- A runnable local-first application path for the chosen vertical slice
- A verification checklist and demo verdict
- A concrete follow-up list instead of an open-ended workshop close
Takeaway
The useful pattern was not “let AI build everything.” The useful pattern was to constrain the work: freeze scope early, keep written artifacts as the source of truth, separate plan from implementation, and verify against a narrow demo path.