alt Hacker NewsWhy not open-ended assistance requests?
I ask it all the time about whether X is feasible, how we can get started on Y, and to investigate issue Z.
It is working great for me in a >100k LOC project.
Perhaps this works less well with weaker models. I suspect the people who say Qwen 3.6 27B is working well, are using prompts like "modify the renderThreeVars() function in rendering.py".
The point is that you can properly describe what X, Y, and Z are.
The irony to me is that a lot of what I'd tell people about this is exactly what I would have told them about writing Stack Overflow questions.