Comment by taspeotis

My workflow has gotten pretty lax around prompts since the models have gotten better. Especially with Claude 4.5 (and 4 before it) once they have a bit of context loaded about the task at hand.

I keep it short and conversational, but I do supervise it. If it goes off the rails just smash esc and give it a course correction.

And then if you're coming from no context: I throw a bit more detail in at the start and usually start by ending the initial prompt with a question asking it if it can see what I'm talking about in the code; or if it's going to be big: I use planning mode.