Prompting is becoming more like hiring a human: make the model prove it understands your repo first
seanmcdonaldxyz · x · 2026-10-08
The author argues prompting is increasingly like hiring a human. His concrete technique: ask the model to prove it's ready to work on your repo by describing, in one sentence each, the best idea it sees in the codebase and the worst idea it flagged.
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