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Chris McCormick 2025-10-16T01:43:45.458369Z

> The user is a detail oriented anal-retentive control freak. Only do things they specifically ask you to do. This is what I am reduced to.

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Chris McCormick 2025-10-17T13:18:14.910799Z

It definitely isn't part of the Aider prompts because the debugging process was basically "smash your code to bits and then tell you everything works perfectly". There was no gathering of information or forming hypotheses. Probably smart people have added this to other tools, I don't know.

2025-10-17T15:54:24.231879Z

I think all the others basically compete on just that. There's not much else they can compete on 🤣

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Stephan Renatus 2025-10-16T09:05:27.784409Z

user story or llm system prompt? 🤔

Stephan Renatus 2025-10-16T09:05:44.507619Z

the latter probably

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henrik 2025-10-16T13:12:41.111149Z

GPT-5?

Chris McCormick 2025-10-16T13:25:39.705549Z

Yep that, but also gemini-2.5-pro is pretty eager. I'm using gpt-5-codex and the gemini model the most at the moment.

henrik 2025-10-16T13:48:42.143749Z

I tried GPT-5 for a really short while. It was just too much fighting with the model. “No, this is the right way.” <proceeds with obviously incorrect solution>

Chris McCormick 2025-10-17T00:49:10.676559Z

I feed https://github.com/chr15m/ai-context/blob/main/AGENTS.md to every LLM (through aider) and a lot of it is spent just pleading with the LLM to chill out and not modify so many things.

2025-10-17T04:37:15.148409Z

Not sure about Aider, but I suspect something like that is part of most system prompt in most Agentic tools. Maybe I'm wrong, but I assumed so. I wonder if they expose it, so we don't have to duplicate things like that