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0 pointstheshrike792mo ago0 comments

Yes and no. I've worked quite a bit with juniors, offshore consultants and just in companies where processes are a bit shit.

The exact same method that worked for those happened to also work for LLMs, I didn't have to learn anything new or change much in my workflow.

"Fix bug in FoobarComponent" is enough of a bug ticket for the 100x developer in your team with experience with that specific product, but bad for AI, juniors and offshored teams.

Thus, giving enough context in each ticket to tell whoever is working on it where to look and a few ideas what might be the root cause and how to fix it is kinda second nature to me.

Also my own brain is mostly neurospicy mush, so _I_ need to write the context to the tickets even if I'm the one on it a few weeks from now. Because now-me remembers things, two-weeks-from-now me most likely doesn't.

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troupo2mo ago

The problem with LLMs (similar to people :) ) is that you never really know what works. I've had Claude one-shot "implement <some complex requirement>" with little additional input, and then completely botch even the smallest bug fix with explicit instructions and context. And vice versa :)

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