I used this method to make a nice little inventory/rma tracker for my job using Rails 8, and it got me MVP in a matter of hours
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MVP in a matter of hours
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Helped: Prompt flow asking one question at a time to build a blueprint.
Got in the way: Code was clunky and contained mistakes requiring manual correction.
… The reasoning models seem to respond quite well to the "ask me one question at a time, building on my previous answer" for the sake of coming up with a solid blueprint for the project, then build from there. I used this method to make a nice little inventory/rma tracker for my job using Rails 8, and it got me MVP in a matter of hours, with most delays being just me refining the code on my own since some of it was a bit clunky. I used o3 mini to generate the initial prompts, then fed those to Claude. …