[shnpln]

Oh yes, I commonly add something like "Use a very granular todo list for this task" at the end of my prompts. And sometimes I will say something like "as your last todo, go over everything you just did again and use a linter or other tools to verify your work is high quality"

[hadlock]

Right now I start chatting with a separate LLM about the issue, the best structure for maintainability and then best libraries for the job, edge and corner cases, how to handle those, and then have it spit out a prompt and a checklist. If it has a UI I'll draw something in paint and refine it before having the LLM describe it in detail and primary workflow etc. and tell it to format it for an agent to use. That will usually get me a functional system on the first try which can then be iterated on.

That's for complicated stuff. For throw-away stuff I don't need to maintain past 30 days like a script I'll just roll the dice and let it rip.

[shnpln]

Yeah, this is a good idea. I will have a Claude chat session and a Claude Code session open side by side too.

Like a manual sub agents approach. I try not to pollute the Claude code session context with meanderings to much. Do that in the chat and bring the condensed ideas over.

[renjimen]

If you have pre-commit hooks it should do this last bit automatically, and use your project settings

[shnpln]

Yes, I do. But it does not always use them when I change contexts. I just get in the habit of saying it. Belt and suspenders approach.