I've been using claude.ai a lot more recently in development, not to generate code but to talk through ideas and potential implementations.
I think of it like someone I'm pair programming with. Once you get used to structuring the questions & prompts in the right way, you can get a surprising amount of feedback and learning done before writing the first line of code.
Claude is my fav
I do the same for design. I run all my ideas (anonymized of course) through Llms for feedback. Sometimes they give good feedback and other times it’s total junk.
LLMs are decent Jr devs and decent architects but man do they fall over with Rust most of the time.
oh, I need to try this. can you share an example of a prompt thats been helpful?
Basically, spend a bit of time up front to try and describe what you're trying to do, what you want to optimize for, and specifically ask if it needs other information from you before it proceeds.
That last one often turns up things that you'd not thought of and seems to reduce hallucinations quite a lot.
Never even thought of asking for other info it needs. Great idea!
Same, its much easier to find answers then digging through google.
now if only it would respond with one sentence responses instead of multiple paragraphs and examples when I didn't ask for any
Have you set the profile settings? That was mostly enough to get it to be concise for me.
No, but that looks very useful. I don't think I have access to those settings though since I use it through ppq.ai ( so I don't need an account )
Also – yeah, I feel like Google has basically become completely useless.
