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I have wondered about this. Can’t you ask the AI to find the patterns than need abstracting?

• fortzi 22d ago
  Yes you can. Sometimes it’ll find them, sometimes it won’t. I find myself having to use Claude to untangle its own mess piece by piece, a as it charged full steam ahead with the design we made together. However, not everything can be foreseen in a design, unless you go full waterfall. Sometimes I find myself in front of a mountain of bad abstractions stemming from a subtle oversight in the design. Before AI coding, I would find details while coding and catch them in time before they became sinful abominations
• sfn42 22d ago
  You can do that, with varying results. Or you can just do actual software engineering like we used to do, and tell it what patterns to abstract and how. You choose your level of effort and involvement. The LLM can write whatever you tell it to write. If you send a drawing of an app and say "make this" then you'll get whatever it comes up with. If you tell it how to make it then it will make it the way you tell it to. If your AI code is trash that's because you're trash at directing it.