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Hm, I use LLMs almost daily, and I've never had it say it changed code and not do it. If anything, they will sometimes try to "improve" parts of the code I didn't ask them to modify. Most times I don't mind, and if I do, it's usually a quick edit to say "leave that bit alone" and resubmit. > Are people who make this workflow effective summarizing and creating a fresh prompt every 5 minutes or something? I work on one small problem at a time, only following up if I need an update or change on the same block of code (or something very relevant). Most conversations are fewer than five prompt/response pairs, usually one-three. If the LLM gets something wrong, I edit my prompt to explain what I want better, or to tell it not to take a specific approach, rather than correcting it in a reply. It gets a little messy otherwise, and the AI starts to trip up on its own past mistakes. If I move on to a different (sub)task, I start a new conversation. I have a brief overview of my project in the README or some other file and include that in the prompt for more context, along with a tree view of the repository and the file I want edited. I am not a software engineer and I often need things explained, which I tell the LLM in a custom system prompt. I also include a few additional instructions that suit my workflow, like asking it to tell me if it needs another file or documentation, if it doesn't know something, etc. |