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by balder1991 15 days ago
Often times to write a good enough specification in a way the LLM won’t misunderstand it, you need to really understand the code and the possible pitfalls in it though. A few times when I tried this route, even adding details just in case the LLM still went and assumed something wrong that I didn’t consider would be a problem until the agent had to make that choice. Then it becomes a game of doing it again and again with more and more detailed instructions until you could have yourself done it in less time and having a deeper understanding of the problem (or I could argue having any understanding of the problem at all, since having the LLM do it for you is like being a manager who has no clue about the lower level decisions made and only being communicated the final result).