meta-pass Task Description Constitution: Six Principles for AI-Assisted Development
If you use AI to write embedded firmware—specifically bootloader hooks, flashing routines, and signature verification—and then discover that your device behaves completely incorrectly, host tests pass while the real device fails, or the online deployment is still running an old version, this post is for you. Over the last six days, I analyzed the thirteen detours we took during meta-pass v1.0 development. Most were not core technical failures, but rather the same root cause resurfacing in different forms: the task description did not specify what “done” means. ...