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Starting every coding task with a prompt (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, every so often I do want to give it a try, to see what's possible, but I just immediately bounce off from trying to explain my task in a prompt. There's so much context one needs to be aware of, I'd have to write a whole essay into there.

And that's when I'm lucky, when I myself know what needs to be done. More often than not, I start implementing and then find out what the steps are. Finding that out upfront, so I could try to write it into a prompt, takes an insane amount of effort. And especially so, when I can't rely on the instructee thinking logically to catch when I made a mistake.