Ayman Nadeem, who built a planning-first coding app, argues 'plan mode is dead'
aymannadeem.com / Hacker News (368pts, 332 comments)·low signal
In a September 24 post, Nadeem says building Nuanced taught him that 'planning != plan'. Users did not value the spec artifact, AI-written specs are tedious to read, and demanding a finished plan before building broke up the way people actually interleave thinking and doing. He argues for an understand-act-inspect-clarify-adjust loop in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Conductor. The open problem he names is keeping humans able to understand a system as the number of agents grows from five to hundreds. The thread's 332 comments show practitioners split.