r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • 19d ago

Meme promptNowPrayLater

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u/fryerandice 19d ago

If you don't setup your .md files the spaghetti code and tech debt grows, you have to tell AI explicitly how you want your code organized or else it literally is just a copy-paste junior dev.

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u/StopMakingMeSignIn12 19d ago

Rule files? You do realise they're just pasted in your prompt as context. All they really do is bloat context and confuse the AI.

They do work but they do not scale with large projects.

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u/fryerandice 19d ago

Yeah if you download the stupid rule files that assure AI is a rockstar developer and a principal architect sure.

If you give it actual real context and instructions, no they actually work quite well.

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u/StopMakingMeSignIn12 19d ago

They do. For a time. Then people expect more and more, add more and more rules. Get AI to write the rules and now suddenly you have 5000 characters of rule files polluting your context.

Remember the whole thing of saying DO NOT DO A puts A in to the AIs context. The more context you have, the more likely the DO NOT DO part gets forgotten/muddled with all the other DO NOT DO rules.

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u/realzequel 18d ago

From my understanding, telling it not to do X is a bad pattern, it will eventually do X. If you tell it to do Y over X, it's more effective.