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A good code base to work from is a big help. I had some typescript that was terribly tangled and neither I nor Junie could make head or tail of the error messa
by PaulHoule 11mo ago
A good code base to work from is a big help. I had some typescript that was terribly tangled and neither I nor Junie could make head or tail of the error messages when we tried to change things. After spending two days straightening it out both of us could understand error messages when we got them and I could ask for it to do things and usually get good results quickly.
My voice talking to Junie is pretty similar (like the first phrase, pointing out files that it should look at, explaining different flows, explaining what I did and the last sentence) I don't have anything like the AGENTS.md file but I do have a few exemplar files that are heavily commented with prescriptive stuff about "this is how we do things" or "here are how the parts of the system fit together" and will tell it to go look at these.
Pretty frequently though I do start out in "Ask" mode and might add some questions about "Do you think we should do ... or ...?" or "I'm concerned about ... what do you think?" or "Do you think this plan makes sense?" or "Am I missing something?" and end with "Propose to me about how you will make this change"
and then I will look at what I get, ask it "Do you really need to ...?" or "How will that affect ... ?" and once I like what I see I will flip it to code mode and say "Make it so!" maybe with some more specific direction.