I have reached the point multiple times where they circle back and give me answers that did not previously work in the same context window
jonnycoder on Hacker News
In the thread “Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age”, replying to this comment
Helped: Asking for help with particular functions and providing examples for consistency.
Got in the way: Solving annoying Django problems where AI circled back with previously failed answers.
… I've tried using it on a large Python Django codebase and it works really well if I ask for help with a particular function AND I give it an example to model after for code consistency. But I have also spent hours asking Claude and ChatGPT with help trying to solve several annoying Django problems and I have reached the point multiple times where they circle back and give me answers that did not previously work in the same context window. Eventually when I figure out the issue, I have fun and ask it "well does it not work as expected because the existing code chained multiple filter calls in django?" and all of a sudden the AI knows what is wrong! …