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by nunez 130 days ago
Not surprising. Many folks struggle with writing (hence why ChatGPT is so popular for writing stuff), so people struggling to coherently express what they want and how makes sense.

But the big models have come a long way in this regard. Claude + Opus especially. You can build something with a super small prompt and keep hammering it with fix prompts until you get what you want. It's not efficient, but it's doable, and it's much better than having to write a full spec not half a year ago.
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vidarh 129 days ago
This is exactly it. A lot of people use it that way. And it's still a vast improvement, but they could also generally do a lot better with some training. I think this is one of the areas where you'll unfortunately see a big gap developing between developers who do this well, and have the models work undisturbed for longer and longer while doing other stuff, and those who ends up needing a lot more rework than necessary.
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KellyCriterion 129 days ago
> Claude + Opus especially. You can build something with a super small prompt and keep hammering it with fix prompts until you get what you want.

LOL: especially with Claude this was only in 1 out of 10 cases?

Claude output is usually (near) production ready on the first prompt if you precisely describe where you are, what you want and how you get it and what the result should be.

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