Coding agents become much more useful when you stop treating the prompt as a request for code and...
Coding agents become much more useful when you stop treating the prompt as a request for code and start treating it as a specification for a change.
A request such as:
Fix the login problem.
contains almost none of the information required to review the resulting implementation.
Which login problem?
Coding agents usually do not drift because they are incapable. They drift because the task leaves too...
A prompt tells a coding agent what to do once. Nearly everything that matters happens after the first...
The Problem Coding agents are only as good as the context you give them. The better your...
A reproducible way to give coding agents the right starting file, allowed edit roots, package checks, and matching human…
Short take: AI coding agents get useful when they have clean context, not giant prompts.
Ten prompting patterns I actually use with coding agents: adversarial reviews, blunt boundaries, measurable gates, evidence,…
