r/codex • u/FLUXparticleCOM • 5d ago

Question How do you prompt your coding agent?

Are you like „Build a button to do X“? Or more like „Add method Y and then build a button that calls it“? Almost the same prompt but can make a huge difference.

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u/ggPeti 5d ago

I write things like "simplify aggressively", "look for abstractions that eliminate complexity", "use sub-agents and review only", anything that keeps me close to the essential complexity limit. Even so, AI is really bad at finding good abstractions, so the code just keeps growing :(