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I recently introduced a non-technical person to Claude Code, and this non-human behavior was a big sticking point. They tried to talk to Claude similar as to a human, presenting it one piece of information at a time. With humans this is generally beneficial, and they will either nod for you to continue or ask clarifying questions. With Claude this does not work well, you have to infodump as much as possible in each message
So even from a perspective of "how do we make this automaton into the best tool", a more human-like conversation flow might be beneficial. And that doesn't seem beyond the technological capabilities at all, it's just not what we encourage in today's RLHF
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I haven't tried claude, but Codex manages this fine as long as you prompt it correctly to get started.
A lazy example:
"This goal of this project is to do x. Let's prepare a .md file where we spec out the task. Ask me a bunch of questions, one at a time, to help define the task"
Or you could just ask it to be more conversational, instead of just asking questions. It will do that.
also, this is what chat-style interfaces encourage. Anything where the "enter" key sends the message instead of creating a paragraph block is just hell.
I'm prompting Gemini, and I write:
I have the following code, can you help me analyze it? <press return>
<expect to paste the code into my chat window>
but Gemnini is already generating output, usually saying "I'm waiting for you to enter the code"
I usually do the "drip feed" with ChatGPT, but maybe that's not optimal. Hmm, maybe info dump is a good thing to try.
I hate when I accidentally hit return halfway through writing my prompt and it gives me two pages of advice about some nonsense half sentence.
I often find myself in these situations where I'm afraid that if I don't finish infodumping everything in a single message, it'll go in the wrong direction. So what I've been doing is switching it back to Plan Mode (even when I don't need a plan as such), just as a way of telling it "Hold still, we're still having a conversation".