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Interesting approach. I'm a bit old-school, when I make a change I already have all the context and beyond in my head, plus all the expectations from colleagues
by paffdragon 1y ago
Interesting approach. I'm a bit old-school, when I make a change I already have all the context and beyond in my head, plus all the expectations from colleagues, historical context etc that might be useful to remind people about. At least for me, it is easier to formulate the commit based on that, than trying to formulate a prompt to formulate what I want to have in the commit. But I have the same with code. When it is born in my head, it's usually easier for me to write what I want, than trying to explain it to an LLM. I find the LLM a bit lacking precision when it comes to comprehension, a little like trying to explain something to a child (with superpowers, but still need step by step directions).
But I find it very interesting how others find prompting more productive for their use cases. It's definitely a new skill. Over years I also built my skill to write commits, so it comes natural to me as opposed to prompting, which requires extra effort and thinking in a different way and context and it doesn't work well for something that I do basically automatically already.
- khalic 1y agoI’m from the old guard, I get where you’re coming from. The thing is when I find a prompt that works well, I can reuse it, build on it, create new rules, all in natural language. Give it a try it’s kind of impressive It’s definitely a new skill.