Stop Asking AI Agents 'Can You Build This?' — Use This Inspection-First Prompt Instead
taherdhanera · x · 2026-09-15
- Asking an AI agent "can you build this?" is useless — it will always say yes.
- The author proposes a replacement prompt structure: inspect the project first, identify what will break, list the dependencies, choose the simplest architecture, build the smallest working version, test it, then report what still fails.
- The core idea: swap open-ended feasibility questions for a structured execution flow with built-in verification.
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