I've recently worked extensively with "prompt coding", and the model we're using is very good at following such instructions early on. However after deep reasoning around problems, it tends to focus more on solving the problem at hand than following established guidelines.

Still haven't found a good way to keep it on course other than "Hey, remember that thing that you're required to do? Still do that please."

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UqWBcuFx6NV4r 2 hours ago | parent [-]

A separate pre-planning step, so the context window doesn’t get too full too early on.

Off the shelf agentic coding tools should be doing this for you.

	▲	lkjdsklf 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They do not. At my company, I use them all the time with the fancy models and everything. Preplanning does not solve the problem they're describing. When claude is doing a complex task, it will regularly lose track of the rules (in either the .rules stuff or CLAUDE.md) and break conventions. It follows it most of the time, but not all of the time.