AI: Programming Like a God

Your team ships faster with AI. Your team also ships more bugs, more security holes, and more code nobody understands. It's a problem you can solve with gates...

The gate stack starts before the model writes a line of code, with a short, testable spec that catches the wrong problem, not just buggy code. The build gate comes next: the compiler becomes a hard wall the model gets no vote on, wired into a sixty-second pre-commit hook. Above the compiler sits a testing pyramid, six layers where each layer catches what the layer below misses, plus a second, independent model that reviews every change against a known-correct answer no prompt can argue past. Two more gates close the doors AI leaves open.

Roughly one in five packages an AI suggests do not exist, and attackers register those invented names to smuggle in malware, so lockfiles and allow-lists lock your dependencies down. Branch protection, the one gate no engineer can bypass makes every other gate required, and records which model shipped which change.

The proof is the book itself. The author, Tom Gilkison, drafted every chapter with AI and ran each page through the same gate stack the book teaches, and each page passed.