Don’t know if this is a common thing, but i noticed a dip in my AI driven development at one point when I got (too?) comfortable with the initial tooling, blaming the tools getting worse. But… I did some self eval and realised it was me. When I started I was very pragmatic woth promping the tools. Then I started involuntarily anthropomophizing the tool, and started to use it more conversationally. Short prompts, unnecessary emotional language, coworker talk… Massive drop in quality. When I realised this and started to use it as a statistics machine again (assertive prompting, plan rewriting as a workflow, course correction as a default path instead of an inconvenience, no jibber-jabber. Real actionable points in every prompt, “HITL as a driver” mentality), the performance went back up. 16+ years software consultant, it really surprised me that I fell into a very obvious mental trap. Anyone else? submitted by /u/hiskias
Originally posted by u/hiskias on r/ClaudeCode