Agentic Playbook #05
Pause Before Execution, Challenge Assumptions
Before requesting code generation, ask AI to challenge your design decisions, identify edge cases, and suggest alternatives. Making Celestial Crosscheck a habitual first prompt.
A useful AI workflow often starts before implementation. Asking the tool to challenge the plan can expose missing cases, weak assumptions, and cheaper alternatives before code exists.
This is especially valuable when the engineer already has momentum. The pause creates a lightweight design review that can prevent avoidable rework.
The habit is simple: before execution, ask for risks, contradictions, edge cases, and competing designs. Then decide deliberately what to keep.