[sklarsa]

> but a single word used in a vague enough way is enough to skew the results in a bad direction

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. It seems like these models latch on to a particular keyword somewhere in my prompt chain and throw traditional logic out the window as they try to push me down more niche paths that don't even really solve the original problem. Which just leads to higher levels of frustration and unhappiness for the human involved.

> Anecdotally, I've felt my skills quickly regressing because of AI tooling

To combat this, I've been trying to use AI to solve problems that I normally would with StackOverflow results: for small, bite-sized and clearly-defined tasks. Instead of searching "how to do X?", I now ask the model the same question and use its answer as a guide to solving the problem instead of a canonical answer.