"Stop Delegating to Dumber Agents": A Prompting Tip for AI Coding Workflows
BraydonDymm · x · 2026-08-10
A user shared a common pain point when using AI coding assistants: the model (Sol) sometimes tries to install and delegate tasks to a local LLM to avoid rewriting multiple-choice questions.
To solve this, the user provided a highly practical prompting tip: explicitly tell the main model, "I want you, not your agents, to go through everything. Stop delegating to dumber agents and elaborate test harnesses, they are missing things you would have caught by glancing at it."
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