Comment by appplication

I find I don’t necessarily need or want AI to give me ideas, but I would agree having a conversational back and forth generally yields decent results.

I have found being Socratic in my questions, and trying to get the AI to arrive at my intended design via such conversations supplies the right level of context for properly solving the problem. It’s token intensive, without a doubt, but I find the result is the AI tends to be better equipped to handle the many micro decisions that need to be made along the way.

The contrast to this is I give it a detailed prompt where it then asks questions of me, which also generally works but I find the AI tends to not be as well equipped for decisions it needs to make mid implementation.

It’s not perfect, and maybe not even a good fit for some. I also never know what to think when people tell me their idiosyncratic ways of using AI. Ultimately I think the most effective way is whatever lets you translate the vision in your head into the end result.