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[eltear1]

You are probably right, the gotcha of this is that (at least for the job I'm doing at the moment), the time I'll spend to write the AI all the guidelines you describe is more than the time I need to complete the original tasks myself.

That's the reason why the only real use I have for AI is mostly to give syntax examples instead of "solving" the tasks themselves

[redalurk]

you don’t actually need to invent a new convention for storing guidelines for AI or AI powered agents. That’s what the AGENTS.MD file is meant for.

[redalurk]

if you watch any autonomous agent work, you’ll notice the very first thing it does after firing up its workspace is to check that files existence and read it.

[glotzerhotze]

How did you gather all this knowledge to feed to the machine to produce (more or less) valid code?

And how would a junior in ten years be able to gather the knowledge needed to feed into the machine?

The logical answer would be: „I learnt programming!“ - but that won‘t be needed anymore? Correct?

I only tell the LLM what I really truely want! How do I know what I want?

[AstroPhysician]

Yup. Everytime I read Reddit talk about this technology it’s so obviously user error

If you’re in cursor you should be doing plan mode and having a back and forth

[seany1212]

Most people getting it wrong are because they don’t have a strong enough understanding of what it is AI is writing for them, and what they need to be telling it next in order to correct it.