Its kind of crazy that the knee jerk reaction to failing to one shot your prompt is to abandon the whole thing because you think the tool sucks. It very well might, but it could also be user error or a number of other things. There wouldn't be a good nights sleep in sight if I knew an LLM was running rampant all over production code in an effort to "scale it".

There’s always a trade off in terms of alternative approaches. So I don’t think it’s “crazy” that if one fails you switch to a different one. Sure, sometimes persistence can pay off, but not always.

Like if I go to a restaurant for the first time and the item I order is bad, could I go back and try something else? Perhaps, but I could also go somewhere else.

I'm okay with writing developer docs in the form of agent instructions, those are useful for humans too. If they start to get oddly specific or sound mental, then it's obviously the tool at fault.