Developers Embrace Minimalist Chat-Only AI Coding Workflows

Developer esrtweet shares a deliberately minimal AI coding workflow—no sub-agents or elaborate tooling, just chat, with AI allowed to edit files but all git commits personally reviewed. The approach drew interest from Rails Tutorial author Michael Hartl and sparked wider discussion.

2026-11-09 ~ 2026-11-09 · 3 related posts

• Applying the bitter lesson to my LLM workflow: skip agents, just talk to the model — esrtweet · 2026-11-09
• Michael Hartl on deliberately primitive LLM coding: no subagents, just conversation — mhartl · 2026-11-09
• Developer shares codex workflow: AI writes files but never commits to git — esrtweet · 2026-11-09