I cloned the backend for Truco and gave Claude a long prompt explaining the rules of Escoba and asking it to refactor the code to implement it.

But by LLM standards, feeding it the entire working codebase of a simple, similar, game you wrote by hand as context is basically doing all the work yourself still.

Maybe that’s how we are supposed to work with current LLMs. Having a template or an example we understand is a big advantage. It can prevent LLM from many pitfalls, and more importantly we can easily review the output.