Comment by alecco

Good stuff. A minor observation:

> I use the Socratic Coder[1] system prompt to have a back and forth conversation about the idea. (prompt starts with: 1. Ask only one question at a time)

Why only 1? IMHO it's better to write a long prompt explaining yourself as much as possible (exercises your brain and you figure out things), and request as many questions to clarify as possible, review, and suggestions, all at once. This is better because:

  1. It makes you think deeper and practice writing clearly.
  2. Even though each interaction is quite slower, since you are more active and engaged it feels shorter (try it), and you minimize interactions significantly.
  3. It's less wasteful as going back and forth 
  4. You converge in much shorter time as your misconceptions, misunderstandings, problems expressing yourself, or confusion on the part of the LLM are all addressed very early.
  5. I find it annoying to wait for the replies.

I guess if you use a fast response conversational system like ChatGPT app it would make more sense. But I don't think that way you can have deep conversations unless you have a stellar working memory. I don't, so it's better for me to write and read, and re-write, and re-read...