Beyond One-Shot Prompts: Iteratively Building Real Projects with AI
TAbrodi · x · 2026-08-09
The author reflects on the recent obsession with 'one-shot' generation in the AI coding community. While generating entire projects from a single prompt is cool, building truly playable and tasteful things often requires iterative refinement.
Using his own project—a re-envisioned Cathedral in the Northshire Valley from WoW—he emphasizes that instead of raising full-scale cities out of the mud with a single prompt, he now prefers to take his time and iterate brick by brick with AI assistance. This, he argues, is the right approach for serious development.
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