Comment by quails8mydog
6 months ago
Seems like this is the sort of thing the tooling should do for you. Maybe have a few preset prompts for different contexts. I shouldn't have to type in a magic phrase to get it to write code that follows basic professional practice.
> type in a magic phrase to get it to write code that follows basic professional practice
The thing is, there is no agreed upon "basic professional practice" that could be encoded. Ask 10 programmers what "basic professional practice" is and you're gonna get 10 different answers.
For me, simplicity, avoiding over-engineering and being deliberately slow are the best ways to program. But lots of people disagree with this, especially the last part, so why have a different model for every preference, when you can use system prompts to have one model that could follow all of it?