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by Abby_101 64 days ago
The over-editing cost is asymmetric when you're solo. If an agent rewrites 50 lines when you asked it to touch 5, there's no second reviewer behind you. You're the writer and the reviewer, and reviewer (you) is usually the one whose attention is already depleted. What helped me most wasn't prompting tricks but committing after every turn so I can revert cheaply and re-prompt with tighter constraints. Cheaper than auditing a 400-line diff at 11pm.