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This has always been my problem whether it's Gemini, openai or Claude. Unless you hand-hold it to an extreme degree, it is going to build a mountain next to a m
by petcat 10mo ago
This has always been my problem whether it's Gemini, openai or Claude. Unless you hand-hold it to an extreme degree, it is going to build a mountain next to a molehill.
It may end up working, but the thing is going to convolute apis and abstractions and mix patterns basically everywhere
- jama211 10mo agoNot in my experience - you need to build the fact that you don’t want it to do that into your design and specification.
- petcat 10mo agoSure, I can tell it not to do that, but it doesn't know what that is. It's a je ne sais quoi. I can't teach it taste.
- dflock 10mo agoRecent Claude will just look at your code and copy what you've been doing, mostly, in an existing codebase - without being asked. In a new codebase, you can just ask it to "be conscice, keep it simple" or something.
- jama211 10mo agoThe trick isn’t to tell it what not to do, it’s to tell it what to do. And give it examples and requirements.
- spaceman_2020 10mo agoIt's very good at following instructions. You can build dedicated agents for different tasks (backend, API design, database design) and make it follow design and coding patterns. It's verbose by default but a few hours of custom instructions and you can make it code just like anyone