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Ai still needs heavy direction, it doesn't matter how clear you are, sometimes it just needs to fail repeatedly before it gets something right, sometimes I get hella progress done, sometimes I spend an hour on one thing stubbornly when It would have been 5 minutes max to do myself. Still get caught in a loop ocassionally where you just assume the next prompt/response will fix it. Not as noticable when you work on multiple things at once. Feels like less of a stall then at least.
It also never suggests helpful things? Maybe just the AI I use, ill get days into a project before I encounter something while googling realizing it fits my needs perfectly and the ai never once thought to implement it instead of whatever solution it came up with. It constantly reinvents the wheel.
Try creating a plan document with the AI first, consisting of small steps. Start by telling it to explain different solutions to the problem, with pros and cons so you can decide what you need. Refine the steps. Then let it implement and review the solution step by step. Let it add general things you don't like to an archtiecture document and refer to that in the prompt. Clear the context inbetween steps.
I do that, the issue usually comes up when new features get added, the plan is helpful, and I do usually start with one that tackles the backend and makes a basic frontend, it's all the iteration that comes after the mvp where any new features also need to be planned to come out right which annoys me. I always start with locally hosted web frontends to test quickly on my phone, so I can go back and forth while testing to ensure everything works as expected. When doing that, one manually asked for change at a time to test is ideal. Ai tests do not seem to account for if things feel good to use, you just get a basic functional ui in my experience otherwise.
Thats also my experience and the reason I don't fear for my job. 😀