In the last 6 months, the way that leading software engineers build software has undergone a fundamental shift.

The adoption of agentic AI coding assistants has heralded the greatest leap in productivity I have encountered in my 20 year career so far. As I wrote previously, adopting Windsurf doubled my output within a week. Where usually I'd be thrilled to find some way to get 20% more done, and would work hard for that 20%, suddenly I'm getting 100% and it's just... easy.

But if there's a single consistent counter-punch to the Vibe Coding movement, it's the irrefutable fact that no matter how good the agentic AI coding assistant is, it will always do much better work from a detailed prompt that includes a plan, than from your 2 sentence vibe code prompt.

That's what Task Demon does: it takes the 2 sentence vibe prompt and blows it up into a sublimely detailed prompt, usually anywhere between 200 and 1000 lines long, that includes a full implementation plan that will correctly guide the AI to do the right thing, using your project's structure, dependencies and ways of doing things.

A video is worth a million words. This one is 15 minutes but if you use AI to build software, I believe you'll find it worth it:

How it works

After using Windsurf and later Claude Code for a while, I found that using the following pattern yielded superb results: