Honestly I've been getting a lot of use out of LLMs for coding, and have been adjusting my approach to LLM usage over the past year and a half. The current appr

Honestly I've been getting a lot of use out of LLMs for coding, and have been adjusting my approach to LLM usage over the past year and a half. The current approach I take that has been fairly effective is to spend a lot of focus energy writing out exactly what I'm looking to implement, sometimes taking 30 or more minutes creating a specs doc / implementation plan, and passing it to a agent with an architect persona to review, generate a comprehensive, phased implementation document. I then review the document, iterate with it to make sure the plan works well, then send it off to do the work. I'm not yet a fan of Windsurf or Cursor, but honestly Roo Codes out of the box personas for architect, and orchestration to spin up focused subtasks works well for me. I am kinda treating it how I would a junior, to guide it there, give it enough information to do the work, and check it afterwards, ensuring it didn't do things like BS test coverage or write useless tests / code. It works pretty well for me, and I've been treating prompting these bots just as a skill I improve as I go along. Frankly it saves me a lot of time, I knocked out some work Friday afternoon that I'd estimate was probably 5pts of effort in 3 hours. I'll take the efficiency anyday as I've had less actual coding focus time in coding implementations than I used to in my career due to other responsibilities.