My AI-Augmented Design Workflow: A 10-Minute Loop From Slack to Documented Decision
Since making Cursor and Claude Code the centre of my working day - with Codex as a backstop, ChatGPT for general questions, and GitHub Spec Kit holding the design contract - the way I move from a question on Slack to a documented design decision has changed beyond recognition. What used to be a multi-day shuffle of meetings, follow-ups, written summaries, and “I will circle back on that” is now a tight loop that closes in five to ten minutes. The result is not just faster - it feels qualitatively different. There is no context switching, no postponed thinking, no half-finished docs. The decision is made, captured, validated against the rest of the design, and rendered into diagrams before the next meeting starts. ...