alt Hacker NewsMost of this article went over my head, but I think this is key point:
if your prompt is not specific enough, many decisions are a coin flip.
If you are using AI, you still have to know what you want it to do. If you are a project manager and give your team incomplete requirements, the result may not be unlike this.
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I mean this sentence is just wrong. Coin Flips are 50/50 and I assume most decisions are not 50/50 and coding agents dont use high temperature so they don’t even very so much anymore. This sentence is a sentence to me that discredits a whole article because it’s just wrong.
Also practically it’s not a good way of seeing it. It would aim for the average solution of the problem which might not what you need, but its not a coin flip.
Idk these kind of sentences just stink to me.
Having a prompt specific enough to resolve all the coin flips is just writing the code yourself