I break everything down into very small tasks. Always ask it to plan how it will do it. Make sure to review the plan and spot mistakes. Then only ask it to do one step at a time so you can control the whole process. This workflow works well enough as long as you're not trying to do anything too interesting. Anything which is even a little bit unique it fails to do very well.

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kgwxd 14 hours ago | parent [-]

sounds like you're doing all the actual work. why not just type the code as you figure out how to break down the problem? you're going to have to review the output anyway.

	▲	Iulioh 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's useful to have the small functions all written. I program mostly in VBA these days (a little problematic as is a dead leanguage since 2006 and even then it was niche) and I have never recived a correct high level ""main"" sub but the AIs are pretty good at doing small subs I then organize. And yes, telling me where I make errors, they are pretty good at that At the end of the day I want reliability and there is no way I can't do what without full review. The funny thing is that they try to use the """best practices""" of coding where you would reasonably want to NOT have them.