How AI changed the way I build software, and why I ended up building an open source shell for Angular

Up front: this is my own project, so I'm not exactly neutral here ;-) Where I'm coming from I work completely differently than I did two or three years ago. For most of my career I wanted to write pretty much every line myself, and I was a bit proud of that. That has changed a lot. Instead of programming I now mostly write specifications and review what the AI generates. On the one hand that's great, I can turn new ideas into working software much faster than before. On the other hand there's the risk of stepping into the same traps with AI-generated code again and again. And that's where I noticed something. Every time I started a new project, I found myself explaining the same things to the AI. This goes into a plugin. That stays out of the core. No domain logic in the shell. Please don't invent a third way of doing tabs. The AI would nod, generate something that looked right, and two days later I'd find a slightly different version of the same sidebar with a slightly different bug. There are things I really don't want to explain over and over. A good, preferably deterministic base is getting more important, not less. I don't want to explain proven architectures from scratch every time. I'd rather build on established solutions where I can, ones the AI understands and can just use. So for my new projects I built exactly that, and put it on GitHub as open source. Why Angular? Well, simply because I think it's a great framework and I've had a lot of good experiences with it over the last 10 years. What it is, and what it isn't LoomWeaver is a workbench shell for Angular. Not a component library. Think of the frame VS Code gives you: a rail on the left, sidebars, a top bar, a status bar, and in the middle tabs and panes you can split and drag around. That frame is what most workbench-style products build themselves, every time, slightly differently. LoomWeaver gives you that frame, and your own domain moves in as plugins. The core contains zero domain logic. Even my