One thing I think would have helped the author: write a spec first. Seriously. It seems stupid. But AI works a lot better with a written spec. The incredible

One thing I think would have helped the author: write a spec first. Seriously. It seems stupid. But AI works a lot better with a written spec. The incredible thing is that the AI can actually be an excellent resource for writing the spec. And it will actually produce better code when you feed the spec back into said AI! The current generation of AI seems to have fooled a lot of people into thinking that somehow you can jump straight to coding. (Well, you can, and it will probably work if you want to make something small or limited in scope.) Not so! But, on the bright side, it’s just as good at design as code if you ask the right questions! I say this having used 4 and 4o extensively in this manner. Just started using sonnet3.5 in this way in the last month or so, and it is amazing at this.