The Model Only Knows What You Tell It

You asked a vague question
and got a vague answer.
The model isn't the problem.

It can't see your codebase.
It doesn't know your constraints.
It has no idea what you already tried.

It only knows what you put in the prompt.

So a bad answer
is usually a starved one.

Give it the error, not "it broke."
Give it the constraint, not the wish.
Give it what you ruled out and why.

Context is the whole job now.
The model supplies the fluency.
You supply the facts it's missing.

Garbage in isn't just old wisdom.
It's the entire user manual.

Feed it well, and it gets sharp.

– Serguey Asael Shinder