Comment by keeda

I'm not sure what this comment is addressing, I didn't find any fancy terms in TFA? If it's the title of the article itself, it seems simpler than "Things that help writing code effectively with AI agents."

> You can just ask it to do what you want.

Yes, but very clearly, as any HN thread on AI shows, different people are having VERY different outcomes with it. And I suspect it is largely the misconception that it will magically "just do what you want" that leads to poor outcomes.

The techniques mentioned -- coding, docs, modularity etc. -- may seem obvious now, but only recently did we realize that the primary principle emerging is "what's good for humans is good for agents." That was not at all obvious when we started off. It is doubly counter-intuitive given the foremost caveat has been "Don't anthropomorphize AI." I'm finding that is actually a decent way to understand these models. They are unnervingly like us, yet not like us.

All that to say, AI is essentially black magic and it is not yet obvious how to use it well for all people and all use-cases, so yes, more exposition is warranted.