Comment by sensanaty

Most of these AI-guiding "techniques" seem more like reading into tea leaves to me than anything actually useful.

Even with the latest and greatest (because I know people will reflexively immediately jump down my throat if I don't specify that, yes, I've used Opus 4.6 and Gemini 3 Pro etc. etc. etc. etc., I have access to all of the models by way of work and use them regularly), my experience has been that it's basically a crapshoot that it'll listen to a single one of these files, especially in the long run with large chats. The amount of times I still have to tell these things to not generate React in my Vue codebase that has literally not a single line of JSX anywhere and instructions in every single possible file I can put it in to NOT GENERATE FUCKING REACT CODE makes me want to blow my brains out every time it happens. In fact it happened to me today with the supposed super intelligence known as Opus 4.6 that has 18 trillion TB of context or whatever in a fresh chat when I asked for a quick snippet I needed to experiment with.

I'm not even paying for this crap (work is) and I still feel scammed approximately half the time, and can't help but think all of these suggestions are just ways to inflate token usage and to move you into the usage limit territory faster.