alt Hacker NewsI 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".
I do this with cursor ai too. I tell, don't change anything, let me hear out what you plan to fix and what you will change