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I usually ask it to build a feature based on a specification I wrote. If it is not exactly right, it is often the case that editing it myself is faster than ite
by raphinou 1y ago
I usually ask it to build a feature based on a specification I wrote. If it is not exactly right, it is often the case that editing it myself is faster than iterating with the ai, which has sometimes put me in an infinite loop of corrections requests. Have you encountered this too?
- notarobot123 1y agoHave you tried a more granular strategy - smaller chunks and more iterative cycles?
- swat535 1y agoAt that point, you might as well write it yourself. Instead of writing 300 lines of code, you are writing 300 lines of prompts. What benefit would you get?
- andoando 1y agoIts not. "Add this table, write the dto" takes 10 seconds to do. It would take me few mins probably assuming Im familiar with the language and much longer if Im not. But its a lot better than that. "Write this table. from here store it into table. Write endpoint to return all from the table" I also had good luck with stuff like "scrape this page, collect x and y, download link pointed at y, store in this directory".
- prox 1y agoFor me I only use it as a second opinion, I got a pretty good idea of what I want and how to do it, and I can ask any input on what I have written. This gives me the best results sofar.
- pdimitar 1y agoThis only happens if you want it to one-shot stuff, or if you fall under the false belief that "it is so close, we just need to correct these three things!". Yes I have encountered it. Narrowing focus and putting constraints and guiding it closer made the LLM agent much better at producing what I need. It boils down to me not writing the code really. Using LLMs actually sharpened my architectural and software design skills. Made me think harder and deeper at an earlier stage.
- bentt 1y agoYes in that case I just paste it back in. Sometimes I start a whole new chat after that.