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by mleo 56 days ago
If I don’t know what I don’t know, how am I going to build something any better than a coding agent? An approach on a couple of projects has been to prototype with the agent, learn, write a design and then start over. I then know the areas to look into more detail.
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That's really the catch, and I think we're just figuring out how to approach this. I think your iteration approach is correct. I do a lot of asking AI to tell me about blind spots, to double check it's work in specific ways. I've asked it to let me know what it might have hallucinated, where it cut corners, and a bunch of other things along these lines. It will be interesting to see how things evolve in this area, and if AI gets good to the point that we have to do this less.