alt Hacker NewsHere’s what I do:
I sit down for 45 min to 1 hour and write up in English a detailed explanation of what I want. Then I hand it over to my agent to implement. Then I go on to the next task.
Really I’m just writing. Not so much prompting.
I define prompting as an interactive and often reactive interaction mode with AI. Instead, I just write.
Talking to LLMs like this saves me a massive headache. When I was first trying out Claude Code etc, I would speak to it like a person back-and-forth and get exhausted when it asked me redundant questions-- Or, more frequently, I would find myself skipping minutes where I should be thinking and reflecting and rather jumping straight to the command line. A big essay also helps keeps me from being glued to my screen and ultimately makes my writing better since I'm not rushing anything.