100% of the time that I've tried to get Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT to "one shot" a whole feature or refactor it's been a waste of time and tokens
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Helped: Curating context, planning first, and breaking tasks into small items.
Got in the way: One-shotting whole features or refactors without focused context.
… getting outside of your expertise you're likely going to have a correlating amount of 'waste' time spent where the LLM is spitting out solutions that an expert in the domain would immediately recognize as problematic but the non-expert will see and likely reason that it seems reasonable/or, worse, not even look at the solution and just try to use it. 100% of the time that I've tried to get Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT to "one shot" a whole feature or refactor it's been a waste of time and tokens. But when I've spent even a minimal amount of energy to focus it in on the task, curate the context and then approach? …