AI coding shouldn't just patch bad designs; list standard solutions first
alexisgallagher · x · 2026-08-21
A developer noted that AI tends to incrementally patch fundamentally broken designs due to RL post-training traits. A better workflow is to ask AI to list typical, standard solutions first, evaluate them, and then start coding from a much closer-to-correct point, avoiding slow optimization on a bad foundation.
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