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My LLM codegen workflow atm

via jbranchaud@gmail.com

https://harper.blog/2025/02/16/my-llm-codegen-workflow-atm/
Software Development AI LLM

Flip the script by getting the Conversational LLM to ask you questions instead of you asking it questions.

Ask me one question at a time so we can develop a thorough, step-by-step
spec for this idea. Each question should build on my previous answers, and
our end goal is to have a detailed specification I can hand off to a
developer. Let’s do this iteratively and dig into every relevant detail.
Remember, only one question at a time.

Here’s the idea:

...

This is a good way to hone an idea, rubberduck, and think through a problem space.

I tried a session of this with Claude Sonnet 3.7. It asked a lot of good questions and got me thinking. After maybe 8 or so questions I ran into the warning from Claude about the conversation getting too long and running into usage limits (not sure what to do about that speed bump yet).