Three Skills Every AI-Assisted Engineering Workflow Needs

These are the most important skills I want in an AI-assisted engineering workflow.

Verification

Make sure the changes actually work.

Useful skills:

• Create Verification Skill
• Maintain Verification Skill
• Principle: Prove It Works

Remove AI slop

Remove stereotypical AI writing, replace vague language with concrete language, and let the author's actual personality show through.

Useful tools:

• Unslop
• Humanizer
• anti-slop, an Oxlint plugin

Restraint

Do not overengineer the solution. Remove unnecessary complexity from the code and design.

• Principle: Laziness Protocol

The three skills from Pstack were created by Lauren Tan.

Originally posted on LinkedIn.