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I found AI works best when given a full set of guardrails around what it should do
_fat_santa on Hacker News
~500 lines in it so it would have taken all day but I ended up doing it in about an hour
In the thread “AI Is Like a Crappy Consultant”
Helped: Uploading detailed product docs and using small, specific tasks.
Got in the way: Vibe coding and generating entire paragraphs without strict guardrails.
I think there's something poetic about that fact that you can go on some AI prompt subreddits and have folks there make posts about turning ChatGPT into an "super business consultant" and then go over hear to read about how it's actually pretty bad at that. But back on point, I found AI works best when given a full set of guardrails around what it should do. The other day I put it to work generating copy for my website. …