Plan milestones,
not tasks.

AI excels at executing tasks but struggles with strategic planning. Ask it to plan a feature and you get a flat list of implementation steps — "Create model," "Add API endpoint," "Write tests." No dependencies, no milestones, no sense of what to do first or what can be parallelized.

Dev10x's project scoping skill builds milestone-based plans with blocking relationships and story points. It groups work into logical phases — domain model first, then API layer, then integration. One session took a design critique and produced 28 execution-ready GitHub issues across 4 milestones, all properly sequenced.

"Plan this feature." You get back: 1. Create model. 2. Add endpoint. 3. Write tests. No dependencies. No milestones. No sense of what blocks what. It's a to-do list, not a plan. You could've written it in 30 seconds. The AI spent 10 seconds and a lot of tokens to produce something equally useless. Strategic planning is where AI coding tools completely fall apart.

Dev10x builds milestone-based plans with blocking relationships and story points. Domain model first, then API layer, then integration. One session took a design critique and produced 28 execution-ready GitHub issues across 4 milestones, properly sequenced. That's not a to-do list. That's a roadmap.