In the first post I told you the story: 20 years as a developer, six months of being scared of AI, $800 in burned tokens, and a stubborn agent named Claudio who taught me — by failing over and over — how to ask for things properly.
This post is the method that came out of all that pain. Five rules, one per letter of FORGE.
I want to be honest about one thing up front: this is not a framework I invented at a whiteboard. Every rule here is a scar. Each one is the lesson from a specific mistake that cost me money, time, or sleep. I'm going to tell you the mistake first, and then the rule. Because the rule only makes sense once you've felt the pain that created it.
Let's go.
First, the idea behind all of it
