🔖 Reading "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway" https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway

“you cannot outsource thinking” https://paulgraham.com/writes.html. “If you would actually read it out, word by word, and not be ashamed of it: congratulations, it is a good text.”

 Matt Pocock’s “grill me” technique

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name: grill-me

description: Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until reaching shared understanding, resolving each branch of the decision tree. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan, get grilled on their design, or mentions “grill me”.

Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree resolving dependencies between decisions one by one. If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explorethe codebase instead.

For each question, provide your recommended answer.”

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Another version

Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the decision tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.

Ask the questions one at a time, waiting for feedback on each question before continuing. Asking multiple questions at once is bewildering.

If a fact can be found by exploring the environment (filesystem, tools, etc.), look it up rather than asking me. The decisions, though, are mine — put each one to me and wait for my answer.

Do not act on it until I confirm we have reached a shared understanding.