Comment by SV_BubbleTime
3 days ago
>It would write incorrect code and then you'd need to go debug it, and then you would have to come to the same conclusion that you would have come to had you written it in the first place, only the process would have been deeply frustrating
A. I feel personally and professionally attached.
B. Yea don’t do that. Don’t say “I want a console here”. Don’t even say “give me a console plan and we’ll refine it”. Write the sketch yourself and add parts with Claude. Do the iiital work yourself, have Claude help until 80%, and for the last 20% it might be OK on its own.
I don’t care what anyone claims there are no experts in this field. We’re all still figuring this out, but that worked for me.
> Yea don’t do that. Don’t say “I want a console here”. Don’t even say “give me a console plan and we’ll refine it”. Write the sketch yourself and add parts with Claude.
Myself, I get a good mileage out of "I want a console here; you know, like that console from Quake or Unreal, but without silly backgrounds; pop out on '/', not '~', and exposing all the major functionality of X, Y and Z modules; think deeply and carefully on how to do it properly, and propose a plan."
Or such.
Note that I'm still letting AI propose how to do it - I just give it a little bit more information, through analogy ("like that console from Quake") or constraints ("but without silly backgrounds"), as well as hints at what I feel I want ("pop out on '/'", "exposing all major functionality of ..."). If it's a trivial thing I'll let it just do it, otherwise I ask for a plan - that in 90%+ cases I just wave through, because it's essentially correct, and often better than what I could come up with on the spot myself! LLMs have seen a lot of literature and production-ready code, so usually even their very first solution already accounts for pitfalls, efficiency aspects, cross-cutting concerns and common practice. Doing it myself, it would likely take me a couple iterations to even think of some of those concerns.
> I don’t care what anyone claims there are no experts in this field. We’re all still figuring this out, but that worked for me.
Agreed. We're all figuring this out as we go.