I definitely feel the "bad at asking questions" part, a lot of times I'll walk away for a second while it's working, and then I come back and it's gone down som

I definitely feel the "bad at asking questions" part, a lot of times I'll walk away for a second while it's working, and then I come back and it's gone down some intricate path I really didn't want and if it had just asked a question at the right point it would have saved a lot of wasted work (plus I feel like having that "bad" work in the context window potentially leads to problems down the road). The problem is just that I'm pretty sure there isn't any way for an LLM to really be "uncertain" about a thing, it's basically always certain even when it's incredibly wrong. To me, I think I'm fine just accepting them for what they're good at. I like them for generating small functions, or asking questions about a really weird error I'm seeing. I don't ever ask it to refactor things though, that seems like a recipe for disaster and a tool that understands the code structure is a lot better for moving things around then an LLM is.