Comment by panza
3 days ago
I have tried and failed to get any LLM to "tell me if you don't have a solution". There may be a way to prompt it, but I've not discovered it. It will always give you a confident answer.
3 days ago
I have tried and failed to get any LLM to "tell me if you don't have a solution". There may be a way to prompt it, but I've not discovered it. It will always give you a confident answer.
It always has a solution. A more effective approach is "Start by asking clarifying questions until the task is completely defined".
But the questions I'm interested in cannot be asked until the programmer starts to code. It's not that the task is unclear, but that coding reveals important subtleties.
You're thinking about it like a human programmer. It may or may not find that part tricky. There will be subtleties it will solve without even mentioning and there will be other stuff it fails on miserably. You improve the chances by asking to ask questions. But again - just try it. Try it on exactly the thing you've already described and see how it goes.
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