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Ship like the best engineers: Matt Pocock's AI workflow

The Hype Kevin

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Your agent can build a whole feature while you make a coffee. So what are you there for? Matt Pocock (x.com/mattpocockuk) has an answer: a folder of agent skills with more stars on GitHub than React. He shipped version 1.3 on October 4.

We follow one small feature through his whole flow: a Pause button for a coffee subscription app, and the bag of coffee that was already packed when the customer hit pause. On the way: the grilling that maps every decision before any code exists, the glossary, the spec and the tickets, the build, review at two separate desks, the new /pr and /retro skills, and a real ten-ticket run from Matt's own repo.

Chapters
00:00 So what are you there for?
00:17 The silent guess
00:47 Couldn't you write a longer prompt?
01:02 The decision tree in the fog
01:54 One word for one thing
02:41 Questions you can't settle by talking
02:56 /to-spec: the destination
03:29 /to-tickets and the smart zone
04:08 The build, one clean head per ticket
04:41 Review at two desks
05:19 /pr and merge danger
05:40 /retro
06:31 A real run from Matt's repo
07:06 Isn't this waterfall?
07:33 Too defensive for today's models?
08:04 The one-line skill
08:28 Your job

Sources
Matt Pocock on X: https://x.com/mattpocockuk
mattpocock/skills: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
v1.3 release: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/...
Matt's v1.3 post (Oct 4): https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/210...
Matt's v1.3 video: New Skills! v1.3 brings /pr, /implement-sp...
"46 questions" (Jul 21): https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/207...
Hide your coding standards from your implementer (Sep 18): https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/210...
/retro and deterministic checks (Sep 15): https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/209...
The real spec, tickets and PR: https://github.com/mattpocock/course-... and https://github.com/mattpocock/course-...
The merge danger example: https://github.com/mattpocock/course-...
Install counts: https://skills.sh
Joe Sadoski's switch to pstack: https://x.com/joesadoski/status/21050...
Our pstack video: Stop correcting your AI agent

The coffee app, the bag and its four tickets are my illustration of the flow. The ten-ticket graph and the pull requests are real, from Matt's course-video-manager repo.

Written and animated by Kevin Araujo. Narration uses an AI clone of my own voice. Music generated with Suno.

#AIAgents #ClaudeCode #DevTools

18 Comments

@ankitcaring 1 day ago

this covered this quite useful video , from the Matt Pocock repost,
keep up the great work.

@SG707_TECH 16 minutes ago

I really like pococks flow but don’t think this is the only one. Just try many and find the one you like. For me I mix the skills I like and make my own. My AI workflow constantly changes

@guclubacak3099 6 hours ago

I think this is a highly underrated channel and video. keep up the good work man. Subscribed!

@mcrosignani 1 day ago

I liked a lot your video, good content.
I´ve seen Sean Grove back in the day when spec-driven was starting to gain track and Kiro wasn´t even public.
Those ideas are even more relevant now and people like Matt are making it all easier.

@terrywester6120 16 hours ago

You just got a subscriber. I've been using some of Matt's skills, but I've never understood them like I did by watching your video. Keep up the good work, and thanks!

@wayne8797 7 hours ago

You got a new sub dude. Loved it.

@_techbk 1 day ago

Yo ! this is exactly the channel I need. On my way to watch the pstack video !

@morris5984 1 day ago

Found you from Matt P sharing this video on x. Great job brother. I hate the hype around AI so it’s hard for a middle aged old fart like me to find content that truely educational versus just another AI bro BSing. Looking forward to watching more of your stuff! You are a great educator.

@duganets 1 day ago

competition between engineers who write the obvious prompt first

@googooboyy 15 hours ago

I've been using cursor and getting it to grill me without even using grill-me.

@phoenix-dev-luca 21 hours ago

How do you make videos like this?

@christopherhartline1863 2 days ago

I'm absolutely motivated to dig into this tomorrow. It seems like responses have gotten worse the last three weeks

@final3119 10 hours ago

Chris Griffin. Family Guy. Tell me I'm wrong.

@Mensin-Ching 2 days ago

It's a waste of time, just build your own workflow like create a flowcharts logics for databasse, for front-end, then back-end for your own software or website. Claude will do the coding part, using skills in frontier model is a waste of token and time.

@dharmesh_nirmal 17 hours ago

Please don't share this software development companies. Else everyone software engineer will lay off.

@lyh1 1 hour ago

Call AI to write a plan and see what it is going to do first, but then you cant beat one prompt GTA6 or adobe cloud engineer and you look dumb from your boss.

@mattymattffs 8 hours ago

If you're vibe coding then you are very far removed from anything that can be called engineering. Might as well just eat a gun

@Joe-q1x1l 1 hour ago (edited)

Ahhh yes yes, clarify requirements, break down large features to small prs, review by a fresh pair of eyes. All good practices that nobody care anymore, peeps these days just think their 1m context window Fable 5.1 max can ram through everything. Result? AI slop.

Nice thing about these harness is it prevent engineers(or...vibe coders) from out sourcing their brains to LLM. You cannot believe the amount of cognitive atrophy in software engineering industry, smh.