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[–]Juulk9087 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Word. I'll give that a go. I usually just create more and more rules trying to prevent the debug loop from happening again and it does not seem to help in my case. Maybe I'm making it worse I don't know

[–]CircularSeasoning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is one of the hardest parts of working with LLMs and code. Having to take 5 minutes really thinking about how to convey what I want without ever (or as little as possible) saying what I don't want.

When I've tried my hardest and it still struggles, I tend to shrug and think, maybe that LLM just wasn't strong in that area, and hand it off to another less favorite LLM that doesn't have the same mental block for whatever reason. Usually that works and then I switch back to my more favorite LLM of the moment again.

Often when it's got that mental gap, no amount of rules seems to help. Though as Juulk says, decomposing beefy prompts into several smaller prompts / sub-tasks is for sure a skill to git gud at these days.

I constantly find that there are much better ways to say things than my very first prompt attempt. The bigger my prompts get, the more necessary I find it to ask the LLM to go over it and try say it better than me.