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Intent-Driven Development
A Discipline for Building Software with AI
The age of typing code is ending. The age of expressing intent has begun. Learn the FORGE methodology for engineering software through expressed purpose rather than written implementation.
You Are Already Building With AI
And discovering the limits of improvisation.
Output Drift
It works brilliantly for an hour, then outputs start drifting. You iterate five times on something that should have taken one pass.
Confident Errors
The AI confidently generates code that looks right but subtly is not. You catch some errors. The rest find you later.
No Methodology
"Vibing" with ChatGPT or Claude works until it does not. You need structure that speeds you up, not constraints that slow you down.
You need a systematic approach to AI-assisted development.
What You Will Learn
The FORGE Methodology
Five phases that transform vague ideas into working systems: Focus, Orchestrate, Refine, Generate, Evaluate.
Test-Driven Development with AI
Write specifications AI can implement and tests that verify the result. Precision replaces hoping.
Prompts That Work
A template-based approach grounded in what AI models actually need. Not tricks or hacks.
Team Practices
Code review, handoffs, coordination, and knowledge preservation for AI-assisted development.
Context Management
What information to provide when, and how to keep conversations focused and productive.
Patterns That Work
Learn from multi-agent systems and spec-first approaches. What works, what does not, and how to adapt.
What's Inside
Core Methodology
- • The Intent-Driven Development Manifesto
- • Intent, Outcomes, and Accountability
- • The Vibe Coding Problem
- • What IDD Actually Is
- • The Thinking and The Tooling
- • The Rules Foundation
The Five Phases
- • Focus - Define what you are building
- • Orchestrate - Break it into pieces
- • Refine - Specify in testable form
- • Generate - Let AI implement
- • Evaluate - Validate against intent
Advanced Topics
- • Memory and Context Management
- • When Things Go Wrong
- • IDD for Teams
Tooling & Patterns
- • Choosing Your Tooling
- • Rolling Your Own
- • Patterns to Borrow
- • The Road Ahead
18 Chapters • 150+ Pages
Everything you need to move from vibe coding to engineering discipline
Who This Book Is For
Experienced Software Engineers
You understand testing, architecture, and code quality. You need to know how to get AI to build it. You have intermediate knowledge of software testing, architecture patterns, and at least one programming language.
Engineering Teams
You are adopting AI-assisted development and want shared methodology. You need code reviews that can actually verify AI-generated output. You want five developers using one approach, not five different ones.
Technical Founders & CTOs
You need shipping velocity without accumulating disaster. You are asking: can we move this fast and still maintain quality? You need to balance speed with sustainability.
What This Book Is Not
- Not a tutorial for a specific AI tool (applies to ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, custom agents, etc.)
- Not "AI for beginners" or "learn to code with AI" (assumes you already build software)
- Not a replacement for engineering fundamentals (AI accelerates execution, not thinking)
About the Author
Scott Feltham has 25+ years building and delivering software. Former VP of Engineering at funded startups and scale-ups, he has led engineering teams from 5 to 50+ people across military avionics, UK Government (HMRC), EdTech, e-commerce, fitness, iGaming, digital media, and oil & gas.
When AI coding tools emerged, Scott saw engineers facing the same problem: brilliant capability, no methodology. Speed without discipline just produces mistakes faster.
Intent-Driven Development is the methodology he developed and refined through real projects. Not theory. Not speculation. The actual approach used to ship production systems with AI assistance while maintaining quality.
Scott founded NeoForge because he was tired of watching organizations waste money on consultants who deliver reports, or contractors who disappear when it gets hard. This book teaches the same systematic FORGE approach he uses to deliver outcomes in weeks, not quarters.
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Stop vibing. Start engineering. Master the FORGE methodology and build better software with AI.
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What You Get
"The code was never the point. The intent was always the point. Now the work matches the truth."
— From the Intent-Driven Development Manifesto