AI makes clinical software cheap to produce. It does not make it safe. Physician-developers must build systems in which speed remains subordinate to evidence, judgment, and the doctor-patient relationship.
A physician-developer's practical guide to giving an AI agent one bounded software assignment and requiring a plan, tests, review evidence, and a stopping condition.
Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, OpenClaw, Hermes, and Omarchy illustrate a durable lesson for physicians: choose the agent's workplace before delegating the work.
AI agents do more than answer questions. This physician-developer guide explains the agent loop, levels of autonomy, and the checkpoints that keep humans accountable.
A clinical AI workflow needs more than a model and a prompt. Build the smallest system that can scope, retrieve, generate, verify, challenge, approve, execute, and audit the work.