Shall I implement it? No

Re:Shall I implement it? No by AnotherGoodName on Thursday March 12, 2026 @07:04PM (#47358472)

There’s an extension to this problem which I haven’t got past. More generally I’d like the agent to stop and ask questions when it encounters ambiguity that it can’t reasonably resolve itself. If someone can get agents doing this well it’d be a massive improvement (and also solve the above).

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Re:Shall I implement it? No by stavros on Thursday March 12, 2026 @07:15PM (#47358577)

Hm, with my "plan everything before writing code, plus review at the end" workflow, this hasn't been a problem. A few times when a reviewer has surfaced a concern, the agent asks me, but in 99% of cases, all ambiguity is resolved explicitly up front.

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Re:Shall I implement it? No by skeeter2020 on Thursday March 12, 2026 @07:42PM (#47358853)

what gung-ho, talented-but-naive junior developer has ever done that?

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Re:Shall I implement it? No by eproxus on Friday March 13, 2026 @05:02AM (#47362089)

In planning I sometimes add ”ask me questions as we go to iron out details and ambiguities.” Works quite well.

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Re:Shall I implement it? No by vitaflo on Friday March 13, 2026 @05:33AM (#47362267)

This. Just asking it to ask you questions before proceeding has saved me so much time from it making assumptions I don’t want. It’s the single most important part of almost all my prompts.

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