When letting AI write software for you, it's best if you're OK with some whimsy.

· Bits and Bobs 9/15/26
  • When letting AI write software for you, it's best if you're OK with some whimsy.
    • If you're ok with a general outcome, you can get great results with a tiny amount of input.
      • "Surprise me" is what your lightly-specified input says to the model.
    • If you have very precise ideas about how all of the details should work, you'll need to be long-winded.
    • If you're OK with seeing what you get, just try it and see what you get.
    • If you're OK with throwing it out if you don't get what you want, then you'll try more things, and some of them will be mind-blowingly great.
    • What's the software that you never would have bothered building before but you'd value if it existed?[c]