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by moonchrome 1165 days ago
How often do you get working code that way ? Unless it's something trivial that fits in it's scope I'd say that's going to produce garbage. I've seen it steer into garbage on longer prompt chains about a single class (of medium complexity) - I doubt it would work project level. Mind sharing the projects ?
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I work only with closed source codebases and this approach for prototypes, but, using the same example as the blog i prompt: "the current system is an online whiteboard system. Tech stack: react, use some test framework, use konva for the canvas, propose a file organization, print the file layout tree. (without explanations)." The trick is that for every chat the context is the requirement+the filesystem + the specific file, so you don't have the entire codebase in the context, only the current file, also use gpt4, gpt3 is not good enough.

My main point is that the blog post final output is mock test awareness hook redux, where an architect feels good to see his patterns, with my approach you have a prototype online whiteboard system,