Comment by kasey_junk

If you get to 2 or 3 and it hasn’t done what you want you fall back to writing it yourself.

But in my experience this is _signal_. If the ai cant get to it with minor back and forth then something needs work, your understanding, the specification, the tests, your code factoring etc.

The best case scenario is your agent one shots the problem. But close behind that is that your agent finds a place where a little cleanup makes everybody’s life easier you, your colleagues and the bot. And your company is now incentivized to invest in that.

The worse case is you took the time to write 2 prompts that didn’t work.