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What sorts of instructions?
by Calavar 5mo ago
What sorts of instructions?
- jampekka 5mo agoUsually I just put something like "Prefer DRY code". I like to keep my AGENTS.md DRY too :)
- Lionga 5mo agoalso add "no hallucinations" and "make it works this time pretty please" while also say Claude will go to jail if does not do it right should work all the time (so like 60%)
- jampekka 5mo agoThere are of course limits to what prompting can do, but it does steer the models. In TFA they found that prompting mitigates over-editing up to about 10 percentage points.
- alsetmusic 5mo agoSimilar to the observation (by simonw) that they respond reasonably to "TDD: Red => Green" I've used that ever since. Works most of the time, but other stuff is often failing and I've learned to become distrustful of an agent very quickly. One mistake where I point it out and the agent corrects itself is fine if it keeps working well after. A second mistake when it's trying to fix the first one or an inability to understand or a claim that it fixed it but it didn't is instant termination (after dumping context for the next agent).