AI agents need low-level specs, not high-level prompts
Principal engineers and senior developers using AI agents for complex codebase changes find that high-level prompts lead to significant bugs and SLA issues. The effort to create detailed low-level specifications and then review AI-generated code is more time-consuming and cognitively demanding than writing the code manually, negating the promised productivity gains of AI.
- Evidence
- 1 report
- Platforms
- 1
- Category
- Dev Tools / SaaS Infrastructure
- Found on
- hackernews
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