[user43928]

Why not open-ended assistance requests?

I ask it all the time about whether X is feasible, how we can get started on Y, and to investigate issue Z.

It is working great for me in a >100k LOC project.

Perhaps this works less well with weaker models. I suspect the people who say Qwen 3.6 27B is working well, are using prompts like "modify the renderThreeVars() function in rendering.py".

[zahlman]

The point is that you can properly describe what X, Y, and Z are.

The irony to me is that a lot of what I'd tell people about this is exactly what I would have told them about writing Stack Overflow questions.

[user43928]

I hardly need to properly describe it.

For example, if I tell it that I want my app translated, it can plan for me what the recommended options are in my framework, what languages I should target for my app, and come up with a skill for a repeatable workflow.