AI-Native Dev: Same Flow, New Roles — From Issue to Shipped Feature
Using Claude Code (Fable 5), the author added a remote-transcription feature to BaoCut, a subtitle transcription app, and retraces the entire flow. The key claim: AI-native development does not invent a new process — feasibility analysis, design doc, prototyping, implementation, testing all stay. What changes is who executes: agents handle analysis and execution, while humans decide on the critical path. The post walks each gate: a feasibility study that leads to plan A (embedding the ASR service in the app), a design doc that becomes the context handoff for new agent sessions, a high-fidelity prototype that merges requirements, interaction and UI into one confirmable artifact, an implementation phase where the /goal command lets the agent hit milestones, self-run tests and screenshot results — so the author skips code review and relies on black-box testing — and a final QA round as a naive user. Two contrarian takeaways: most coding-focused Skills are unnecessary because the real bottleneck sits on both sides of code (design/confirmation and test/deploy), and documents gain new weight as both human confirmation substrate and inter-session memory. For engineers who already use AI coding tools but are still wrestling with the surrounding workflow.