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Giving it a context/how-to file I put together made it significantly better (however I still gave up and did it more manually)
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In the thread “New Research Reassesses the Value of Agents.md Files for AI Coding”
Helped: Providing a custom context/how-to file made the output significantly better.
Got in the way: Initial attempt without context produced an un-runnable mess due to atypical SDK.
… The sdk and examples appear to be very atypical for a lot of python I've done (and atypical for my code base). Giving it a context/how-to file I put together made it significantly better (however I still gave up and did it more manually).