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>Sure, you can overengineer your prompt to try get them to ask more questions That's not overengineering, that's engineering. "Ask clarifying questions before
by linsomniac 1y ago
>Sure, you can overengineer your prompt to try get them to ask more questions
That's not overengineering, that's engineering. "Ask clarifying questions before you start working", in my experience, has led to some fantastic questions, and is a useful tool even if you were to not have the AI tooling write any code. As a good programmer, you should know when you are handing the tool a complete spec to build the code and when the spec likely needs some clarification, so you can guide the tool to ask when necessary.
- manmal 1y agoYou can even tell it how many questions to ask. For complex topics, I might ask it to ask me 20 or 30 questions. And I'm always surprised how good those are. You can also keep those around as a QnA file for later sessions or other agents.
- BeetleB 1y agoYeah, this made me stop reading. I often tell it to ask me any questions if unclear (and sometimes my prompt is just "Hey, this is my idea. Ask me questions to flesh it out"). It always asks me questions, and I've always benefited from it. It will subtly point out things I hadn't thought about, etc.