David Wells: AI development needs shared primitives to avoid duplication

DavidWells · x · 2026-08-17

David Wells argues that AI-driven development requires shared foundational primitives like auth, secret management, deployments, UI components, SDKs, observability, and AI agents/skills. He emphasizes a service/package discovery layer so AI tools use platform primitives instead of recreating similar things, preventing code duplication and maintenance burden.

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