They will also keep going in circles when you rephrase the requirements, unless with every prompt you keep adding to it and mentioning everything they've already suggested that got rejected. While humans occasionally also do this (hey, short memories), LLMs are infuriatingly more prone to it.

A typical interaction with an LLM:

"Hey, how do I do X in Y?"

"That's a great question! A good way to do X in Y is Z!"

"No, Z doesn't work in Y. I get this error: 'Unsupported operation Z'."

"I apologize for making this mistake. You're right to point out Z doesn't work in Y. Let's use W instead!"

"Unfortunately, I cannot use W for company policy reasons. Any other option?"

"Understood: you cannot use W due to company policy. Why not try to do Z?"

"I just told you Z isn't available in Y."

"In that case, I suggest you do W."

"Like I told you, W is unacceptable due to company policy. Neither W nor Z work."

...

"Let's do this. First, use Z [...]"