I have a few takeaways since I started using more and more AI since late 2022.
- if you want to understand where the LLM is coming from, write some code that is working and ask it why it does not work
- do not use ai to mock up data e.g. time series to test something
- try to make an AI draw the wireframe of a cube without diagonal lines. I almost gave up but then learnt a lot of prompting
- if you started using AI in a project from the start, prompting seems to be easier even when the project gets more complex
- describe the desired outcome and give examples for undesired ones
- keep on learning to code by using AI, some stuff is still faster written than prompted
- if you see AI miserably failing from the start, head over to stack overflow and get help from humans