I got really annoyed at how slow the LLMs are so I found myself doing more and more prompts like "in file X do Y", if you can piecemeal your task into very limited prompts and periodically reset the context on each go the LLMs do the work MUCH faster. Since I reset the context all the time I often do manual changes in-between prompts.

But at the same time if you do like this you can't do that insane multitasking I see a lot of devs doing where they juggle multiple agents doing separate tasks (maybe even completely separate tasks on different git branches). I _really_ hate working like this and only do it if I know on of my prompts will take 10+ min. Usually an initial prompt for a large task where I will move to my usual 1-file-per-prompt style later.

Of note that I am working on a ~10 year old codebase with a lot of custom instructions for agents and a lot of code to dig through to get things done. I feel a lot of people are conflating using LLMs to start hobby projects and extrapolating the workflow to real world large codebases.