# Why I Stop Prompting and Start Logging: The Design-Log Methodology

DevFeed: [Why I Stop Prompting and Start Logging: The Design-Log Methodology](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-i-stop-prompting-and-start-logging-the-design-log-methodology-22646.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.wix.engineering/post/why-i-stop-prompting-and-start-logging-the-design-log-methodology>)

Author: Wix Engineering

Published: 2026-01-05T07:29:38Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Wix Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/wix-engineering.md>)

Topics: [ai-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-coding.md>), [context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/context.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [Documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/documentation.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>), [Markdown](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/markdown.md>), [Pull Request](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-request.md>), [TypeScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/typescript.md>)

Tags: [ai-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-coding.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [context](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context.md>), [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [markdown](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/markdown.md>), [pull-request](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-request.md>), [typescript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/typescript.md>)

## AI overview

The article presents the Design-Log Methodology for AI-assisted software development. It recommends keeping version-controlled Markdown records of design decisions, project patterns, questions, implementation details, and outcomes so an AI coding tool can use project context before modifying code. A Jay Framework server-actions example illustrates the workflow, which the author says produced a tested pull request in two days.

## Source excerpt

If you use AI to code, you've felt the "Context Wall." You start a project, things go great, but as the codebase grows, the AI starts making suggestions that conflict with previous decisions. You spend more time correcting the model than writing code To solve this, I developed the Design-Log Methodology. It started as a way for me to remember my own decisions in large projects, but it has become the single most important tool in my AI-coding workflow. The AI is no longer just a "coder"; it is...