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The grandparent is talking about how to control cost by focusing the tool. My response was to a comment about how that takes too much thinking.

If you give a junior an overly broad prompt, they are going to have to do a ton of searching and reading to find out what they need to do. If you give them specific instructions, including files, they are more likely to get it right.

I never said they were replacements. At best, they're tools that are incredibly effective when used on the correct type of problem with the right type of prompt.



> If you give a junior an overly broad prompt, they are going to have to do a ton of

> they're tools that are incredibly effective when used on the correct type of problem with the right type of prompt.

So, a junior developer who has to be told exactly what to do.

As for the "correct type of problem with the right type of prompt", what exactly are those?




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