Welcome to another episode of AI That Works, our special "No Vibes Allowed" session! This month, we're diving deep into a topic not often covered: how we build incredibly effective design documents using AI and agentic engineering. We tackle complicated concepts by creating internal tools that fight AI "slop" to produce genuinely high-quality documentation.

We'll share practical insights into our process, showing how we integrate Markdown files with comments and Slack, and discussing the crucial level of detail for a truly robust design. Our goal is to make it easy to get quality results without having to keep everything in your head. We're joined by Kevin Gregory from Evolution IQ, who shares his experience building sophisticated agentic engineering systems at a company acquired for $738 million. Learn how phenomenal design can truly streamline implementation and how we engineer things on our teams.

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⏱️ Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:51 Design Doc Process
00:10:33 Interactive CLI Demo
00:14:38 Concurrency System Design
00:22:38 BEP Review Methodology
00:30:33 Error & Cancellation Logic
00:37:08 Middleware Patterns
00:42:24 Impact on Dev Workflow
00:46:49 Closing Thoughts