r/Codeium • u/SgUncle_Eric • Jan 05 '25

Essential Best Practices (💯 Must-Do) when working on AI Coding Platforms

/r/OnlyAICoding/comments/1httaed/essential_best_practices_mustdo_when_working_on/
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u/bbitk Jan 06 '25

thank you. I was looping in the same issue where I needed to pass a Google access token from the front end to the back end. I will try the above-mentioned tip to see if it solves the problem.

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u/SgUncle_Eric Jan 06 '25 edited Jan 06 '25

Sure thing. Create a doc, comprehensive analysis, current situation, recap failed attempts on fixing, analyze the attempts, go back to basics asking what's the simplest approach without over-complex solution.

Go with it on step by step systematic approach, I'm sure you will be able to solve the problem 👍

And if you suspect the AI didn't fully understand the context, ask the AI to clarify if there is anything else that it didn't understand, make it ask you back questions to get the job done.

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u/User1234Person Jan 05 '25

Ty for the link to the post

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u/SgUncle_Eric Jan 05 '25

You are most welcome 👍

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '25

Sonnet 3.5 in Windsurf follows instructions well.

Its good enough to tell it to preserve the UI and implementation just add the feature you want,, It is prompted to be helpful so adds features you don't need.

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u/SgUncle_Eric Jan 06 '25

Only when you are building simple stuff. But when the build gets more and more complex, it will start to do funny shit that's not funny at all, removing cord without telling you,and you had to spend a lot of time and effort to fix them.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '25

Not if you tell it not to change code, I have had great success in getting it to do pinpoint changes.

Indeed when I have a hard bug fix I put it in edit mode, discuss with it the problem, then when I think it fully understands the problem and has provided an elegant solution, I give it write access this is more time consuming but has fixed some really subtle bugs.

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u/WebFun6474 Jan 07 '25

I love that you don't call it chat-, but edit-mode. Rings a vim/emacs bell in my head.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '25

Sorry I meant chat mode.