AI handles the busywork—you keep the control in coding
An AI coding assistant that writes code for you is only as good as the plan you give it and the checks you put in place. A fresh approach called Son of Anton flips the script: it does the tedious implementation while forcing you to actively own every major decision before anything reaches your repository.
Son of Anton acts as a delivery orchestrator, not a line-by-line babysitter. Instead of approving endless code diffs or hoping the final pull request matches your intent, you focus on three unskippable gates that determine the shape of the work. The AI handles everything in between—planning tickets, writing code, and running quality checks—so you stay in charge without drowning in details.
Three gates that keep control in your hands
The first gate is “Approve the WHAT.” Before any ticket is created, Son of Anton forces the AI to lay out its assumptions, constraints, and scope in plain language. You either green-light the plan or ask for refinements. Nothing moves forward until you say so.
Once the plan is locked, the second gate kicks in: “Approve the HOW.” The orchestrator turns the approved plan into a dependency-aware ticket stack, ordered and sized for review. You decide the architecture and priorities; the AI authors the tickets and later writes the code.
The final gate is “Approve DONE.” Before any pull request opens, an adversarial subagent reviews every ticket. Only after you sign off does the stack squash-merge onto main. Every merge is your call—no silent automation overrides your standards.
Source: DEV Community. AI-assisted editorial synthesis — TechnoExpress.