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by bluGill 3 days ago
Only for simple problems. As the problem becomes complex you can't remember all the requirements to prompt the AI with.
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As the problem becomes complex, you can't remember all the requirements, period.
Exactly, but if I start from working code with a lot of tests I don't need to remember the requirements. I just need to know my current requirement and figure out the ones I'm changing with my new requirement. It doesn't catch everything, but in most cases if I break some other requirement I find out about it and can figure out just that one more requirement and not the millions of others that still work.