I sometimes end up in programming/AI rabbit holes on Reddit. This weekend I browsed for many, many posts where the point of discussion was AI skill issues. “You don’t prompt well,” “add a Agent.md,” “Ask LLM to re-eval their work,” “Ask to create a feedback loop to optimize initial prompts,” and many more. So many pre-implementation steps. So many guardrails. It’s like baby-proofing a house or, likely, asking the baby to baby-proof the house.
First, some background 🔗I’ve been writing blogs since 2023 - starting with tutorial-style articles and recently writing whatever comes to mind. It began as a place to store all my notes but evolved into my primary spot to share my thoughts. I don’t like posting on social media (I have some strong opinions on social media), so I use this blog mostly as a mental dump on what I’m thinking, what I’ve learned, and what I’ve observed.
🔗I’ve written numerous automation tools over the past two years with AI assistance, evolving from simply copying and pasting generated code from ChatGPT to letting AI plan full features using the plan/exec mode of Open Code.
Something that hasn’t changed or infact has been more important than before - I am reading more code than ever before. I still need to understand the behavior of programs which own. I ask LLMs questions about decision it constantly.