Comment by defatigable

Yes. This was the key thing I learned that let me set the agents loose on larger tasks. Before I started iterating on specs with them, I mostly had them doing very small scale, refactor-this-function style tasks.

The other advice I've read that I haven't yet internalized as much is to use an "adversarial" approach with the LLMs: i.e. give them a rigid framework that they have to code against. So, e.g., generate tests that the code has to work against, or sample output that the code has to perfectly match. My agents do write tests as part of their work, and I use them to verify correctness, but I haven't updated my flow to emphasize that the agents should start with those, and iterate on them before working on the main implementation.