{"slug": "ai-should-do-the-implementation-you-should-own-the-decisions", "title": "AI should do the implementation. You should own the decisions.", "summary": "A developer introduced Son of Anton, a delivery orchestrator that limits AI-assisted development to three human decision points: approving the plan, approving the decomposition into tickets, and approving the final closeout. The orchestrator handles all intermediate work, preventing the common failure modes of babysitting the AI or handing it full control.", "body_md": "The default for AI-assisted development is one of two failure modes.\n\nEither you're babysitting the agent line by line — approving each diff, re-explaining context it dropped three messages ago — or you've handed it the wheel and you're hoping the PR that lands at the end resembles what you asked for.\n\n**Son of Anton is neither.** It's a delivery orchestrator built on a single claim: there are exactly three moments where a developer's judgment is irreplaceable. The orchestrator owns everything in between.\n\nEvery project moves through three human decision points. Nothing important happens without you signing off.\n\n**Gate 01 — Approve the WHAT** (`/soa plan`\n\n)\n\nA grill-me session forces the AI to surface its assumptions, constraints, and scope decisions *back to you* before a single ticket exists. You say yes or you refine. It does not proceed until you have.\n\n**Gate 02 — Approve the HOW** (`/soa decompose`\n\n)\n\nThe approved plan becomes a ticket stack — ordered, dependency-aware, sized for review. Architectural judgment stays with you. Ticket authorship goes to the agent.\n\n**Gate 03 — Approve DONE** (`/soa closeout`\n\n)\n\nAn adversarial subagent reviews every ticket before its PR opens. When the phase is complete, *you* decide whether to accept. Closeout squash-merges the stack onto main. Nothing merges without you.\n\nThat's the whole point. Once you've approved the plan and the tickets, the orchestrator runs the loop:", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-should-do-the-implementation-you-should-own-the-decisions", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/cesarnml/ai-should-do-the-implementation-you-should-own-the-decisions-5693", "published_at": "2026-06-13 09:59:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-13 10:17:48.353752+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Son of Anton"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-should-do-the-implementation-you-should-own-the-decisions", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-should-do-the-implementation-you-should-own-the-decisions.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-should-do-the-implementation-you-should-own-the-decisions.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-should-do-the-implementation-you-should-own-the-decisions.jsonld"}}