Engineering Tip: Use AI in a Maximally Deterministic Way
rickasaurus · x · 2026-08-28
The author shares tips for using AI in a maximally deterministic engineering workflow: return offsets instead of substrings; pass references around rather than values; and have the AI describe the action it needs to take rather than executing it directly.
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