alt Hacker NewsAmusingly, about 90% of my rat's-nest problems with Sonnet 3.7 are solved by simply appending a few words to the end of the prompt:
"write minimum code required"
It's not even that sensitive to the wording - "be terse" or "make minimal changes" amount to the same thing - but the resulting code will often be at least 50% shorter than the un-guided version.
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theshrike79 • 05/15/2025
Gemini on the other hand has a tendency for super-defensive coding.
It'll check _EVERY_ edge case separately, even in situations where it will never ever happen and if it does, it's a NOP anyway.
Well, the article mentions that this reduces accuracy. Do you hit that problem often then?