Comment by prmph
8 months ago
True, that's why I'm beginning to adopt a certain strategy working with AI coding agents:
I don't babysit them for long periods in one session. I allow them to one-shot the initial solution. Then, I thoroughly review the output, make notes of what should be improved, then either feed that into the original prompt and one-shot it again, or ask the agent to update the solution based on the notes.
Yes I do exactly this too. But I do sometimes 2, 3 shot some problems. The method I use is that in Cursor/Copilot interface I use a Markdown file to chat with the bot. Once I have some solutions after a few turns, I edit the file, add more information, add things to avoid etc and restart. It most definitely gives better results, and the agent doesn't have to read the whole file if not necessary, which means context is used more efficiently per problem.