Ask HN: How do you stop playing 20 questions with your AI coding tools

2 points by IxInfra 40 days ago | 2 comments

every session is a constant repeat of re-explaining the same architecture, service boundaries, etc. wondering how others are dealing with this?

PaulHoule 40 days ago |

Write up that stuff on a file and tell the agent to look at it. Say “take a look at file A as an example of how we do this sort of thing.” Good comments in the code help that explain how it works and what that patterns are are helpful, but you don’t need to go line by line duplicating the code.

IxInfra 38 days ago | |

I've found that this works for smaller projects but starts breaking down when you're dealing with large-scale codebases or systems that change frequently.