[p1necone]

Yeah I tried that once following some advice I saw on another hn thread and the results were hilarious, but not at all useful. It aggressively nitpicked every detail of everything I told it to do, and never made any progress. And it worded all of these nitpicks like a combination of the guy from the ackchyually meme (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ackchyually-actually-guy) and a badly written Sherlock Holmes.

[im3w1l]

My advice would be: It can't agree with you if you don't tell it what you think. So don't. Be careful about leading questions (clever hans effect) though.

So better than "I'm thinking of solving x by doing y" is "What do you think about solving x by doing y" but better still is "how can x be solved?" and only mention "y" if it's spinning its wheels.