TL;DR ELI5 of @trq212's new article: Claude isn't the bottleneck anymore. The stuff you forgot to tell it is. Your prompt is a map. The codebase is the actual road. Every pothole you didn't mention, Claude fills with its best guess, and the more work you hand it, the more it has…↗

okay this is going kinda viral and tbh my original text was kind of messy, so here's a second pass with the help of Claude: -- Implement <SPEC>. As you work maintain a running implementation-notes.html file that captures anything I should know about how the implementation diverg…↗

a prompt I've been using a lot recently: implement <SPEC> and while you do, keep a running implementation-notes.html file (or markdown) with decisions you had to make weren't in the spec, things you had to change, tradeoffs you had to make or anything else I should know↗