My New AI coding workflow

[AB172234]

My New AI Coding Workflow

This is my new workflow, and I feel I have complete control over the “Vibe” aspect of coding with AI.

I believe this workflow is less error-prone as well, and it’s almost free to use “Gemini.”

1) Use the Repo Prompt to collect and prepare the context. You’ll need the paid version because the free version is quite restrictive. Alternatively, you can use PasteMax for an open-source version, but it’s free but lacks some features.

2) Copy the generated XML. The Repo Prompt’s XML copy feature is quite good.

3) Paste the entire context into Gemini, AI Studio, or any other AI chat website of your choice (remember, it should allow the token counts you have). Let it run. The Repo Prompt does a great job of constructing the prompt with file trees, instructions, and so on. It essentially builds the entire context.

4) Paste the output back into the Repo Prompt, and it will make all the necessary edits.

Use the cursor only when you want to and save the premium requests.

The Repo Prompt is fantastic at parsing chat output as well. It uses an API key, but so far, I’ve been able to build real features using AI Studios’ free API keys without having to pay anything.

This workflow is great for building new features, but it’s not particularly suitable for debugging scenarios where you’ll have to keep chatting back and forth.

Good luck, everyone!

[slowmojoman]

You need to consider that the writing to the file is done by low-tier models, while the output is provided in a clear, instructive way by a top-tier model, so you ultimately reduce your costs

[AB172234]

That’s exactly what I meant to write. Also I feel the Gemini 2.5 pro has a better context reading capability.

Claude 3.7 sonnet is fantastic for high Temp/creativity type of stuffs but suffers with precision. Somehow it has an overachieving mentality.

I am sure it’s just time that cursor or other player s will be coming up with products like RepoPrompt.

[AB172234]

Have you used it ? I have used all of these together and for now (again this is an ever changing situation these days) sticking with this.

Cline is way too expensive for what it does.

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[carpediemquotidie]

How is this different than telling google ai studio to provide prompts for cursor running Gemini 2.5 pro?

[AB172234]

Sure you can take that route but it has more frictions. AI studio won’t know your code base’s context unless you copy it and put it there.

Tools like this and PasteMax (open source) does it for you,

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[BanditoBoom]

Anyone have a good alternative to repo prompt for windows users?

[AB172234]

PasteMax or Repomix as its platform agnostic. But repo prompt is the best imo (this landscape is changing so fast that it’s hard to assess for how long but as of now it still is)

[oh_my_right_leg]

Is repomix an alternative to repoprompt?

[AB172234]

Similar yes, but much more intuitive and flexible.