Salvatore Denaro

Spec coding Like everyone else, I've been playing with using LLMs as an app generation tool and like most people, I have been disappointed. The code being spit out has not been very good. And like many others, I was interested in finding ways to improve code creation.  Gemini.md I had stumbled upon this medium article and then took a look at the Gemini CLI github repo.  Much like claude, cursor and github copilot, it is possible to have standing instructions for Gemini. Just write up instructions on how you want your projects laid out, what language and libraries you want to use and how you want the LLM to prioritize things and in theory, Gemini should build an app closer to your spec. After a using gemini-cli for a few weeks I started to gather a few prompt sets from reading what others have done with claude and cursor. Laying it out in a markdown file was easy enough but I was curious if it really had any real effect. As a test, I decided to try the same prompt twice, once ...

Almost every discussion about using LLMs seems to eventually leads to people mentioning they ways they've adjusted their writing style, prompting style and expectations to get the most out of their LLM. So it makes me wonder if the LLMs training us as we are training them as there is plenty of precedent for new communications media creating new rules for communication.  From smileys to emoji Back in college when I was just starting to use email to contact people I noticed that sometimes people used smileys at the end of a subject or at the end of an email to suggest that something was being said in as a joke. These were sometimes modified with other ascii characters. An O to suggest a halo when you claim you're innocent or an & replacing the ) to suggest you're tongue tied. Eventually, smileys would be added to subjects or to the first line of an email as a hint that there would be something funny in the email. Smileys became a new form of punctuation that were only us...