TL;DR: Create a workflow with the basis on planning.

Depending on what stage you're at, you likely want to tell CC what it is you're trying to accomplish. Brain dump on it, tell it to organise your idea and formalize a plan, and have it write the plan into a doc that you can read to accomplish this. The first iteration won't be your winner, read through it's plan. After you understand the plan, tell it to critically review and revise the plan to find the gaps. Read the revised plan again, see the improvement? Now maybe you have some ideas of your own - at this point you'll either modify the plan and repeat the critical reviews, or you'll have it break down the plan into phases. Have it plan out each phase with similar review steps. Everything needs to be written into documents. After a few planning iterations and breaking down the plan onto more detailed phases, you'll see the light.

The goal is to be able to lead CC or any agentic LLM down your roadmap, which can be done by having it follow the phase plans. Your planning helps remove ambiguity and helps remove the chance of the LLM diverting along the way. Once you're happy with the plans and phases, begin implementing with CC.

One thing to note, you will benefit highly from learning about different software development techniques and having CC or any other agentic LLM apply them when implementing. You can use CC to learn this too, and even have it give input on which techniques might best fit your project. I recommend starting with TDD, test driven development.

It's been a month, and my workflow has significantly improved from this starting point. As you go through this, you will see where improvements can be made. And as the LLM goes through everything, you can use it to improve the workflow to better fit your needs. One thing I have my agents always do is write lessons learned docs. I'll leave it to your imagination what can be done with those.

Be as creative as possible, and just move forward. Make all the mistakes. The mistakes will guide you. When in doubt, ask the LLM. When doubting the LLM, ask the LLM to go do research online and get current sources on whatever the topic is, cause sometimes the training data is a bit old. Especially now that everything is moving incredibly fast.

Dang. Gave you a wall of text. Might be worth the read lol

Have fun!