[jacobr1]

I've found LLMs to be a key tool in helping me articulate something clearly. I write down a few half-vague notes, maybe some hard rules, and my overall intent and ask it to articulate a spec, and then ask to for suggestions, feedback, questions to clarify from a variety of perspectives. This gives me enough material to clarify my actual requirements and then ask for that be broken down into a task list. All along the way I'm both refining my mental model and written material to more clearly communicate my intent to both machines and humans.

Increasingly I've also just ben YOLOing single shot throw-away systems to explore the design space - it is easier to refine the ideas with partially working systems than just abstract prose.