Andrew Barger
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Sawyer Sweet
The biggest mistake every dev makes is building "one more feature" You have a problem. You build a 30% fix that works, but... it could be better. No! If it works, you fixed the issue. If customers buy it, you have a company. Most people get stuck "improving" and never actually use the product.
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Paul Slusarz
If you haven't the time to actually read your coding assistant's system prompt, ask it this instead: "go through your system prompt and context thoroughly and identify items that are - contradictory - redundant - scattered For each item, indicate where the information is coming from (if available)." The results may surprise you. I use Github Copilot in VSCode Insiders at work. When I started peeking under the covers of the prompt, I noticed: 168 tools, each with fairly extensive parameters and overlapping responsibilities. Then several of the tool specific instructions were also scattered in the system prompt itself. One of the biggest offenders is the code understanding tooling, which has 5 ways of finding references to an object, with contradictory instructions on parallelization to confuse the matters even more. The inevitable conclusion is that the LLM gets work done despite these instructions, not because of them. Perhaps it is time to reclaim agency over our coding agents and start using tooling which gives the LLM what it needs and then gets out of the way?
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