> Sure, you can overengineer your prompt to try get them to ask more questions (Roo for example, does a decent job at this) -- but it's very likely still won't.
Not in my experience. And it's not "overengineering" your prompt, it's just writing your prompt.
For anything serious, I always end every relevant request with an instruction to repeat back to me the full design of my instructions or ask me necessary clarifying questions first if I've left anything unclear, before writing any code. It always does.
And I don't mind having to write that, because sometimes I don't want that. I just want to ask it for a quick script and assume it can fill in the gaps because that's faster.
Not in my experience. And it's not "overengineering" your prompt, it's just writing your prompt.
For anything serious, I always end every relevant request with an instruction to repeat back to me the full design of my instructions or ask me necessary clarifying questions first if I've left anything unclear, before writing any code. It always does.
And I don't mind having to write that, because sometimes I don't want that. I just want to ask it for a quick script and assume it can fill in the gaps because that's faster.