Re:Why agents are bad pair programmers
by ta12653421 on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @01:59PM
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initial prompting like this has a huge impact, yes.
also: I clean the chat and start over sometimes, because results may differ.
No emojis, no comments, no console log statements, no read me file, no error handling. Act as a senior developer working with other experienced developers.
Otherwise it happily generates bunch of trash that is unreadable. Error handling generated will most of the times just hide errors instead of actually dealing with them.