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• ✓**AI-Assisted Planning with Voice Input:** Faulkner used Super Whisper voice-to-text to brain-dump architecture plans directly into Claude Opus 4.5/4.6, spending a few hours generating markdown planning files before writing a single line of code. The key unlock was understanding the target system's shape first — knowing Vite's plugin architecture and Next.js internals made AI direction-setting possible and precise.
• ✓**Test Porting Over Test Running:** Rather than attempting to run Next.js's 8,000-test suite directly, Faulkner instructed the AI to port individual tests into a Vitest and Playwright setup. This reframing — porting tests rather than executing them — gave the agent a contained, trackable task with clear success criteria and a tracking document to log progress test by test.