This trick saves so much time

Is bad communication causing your $5K/month token costs? A couple years ago, prompt-engineering was all the rage. Make sure to say everything three times, ask it to think step-by-step, and avoid typos or else it will start sounding like 4chan. Nowadays, people speak plainly to their AIs. To get what you want from the AI, it must understand what you want. The basics of prompting are the same as how to communicate clearly with humans. Go pop open any article on clearly communicating tasks, and it probably applies to prompting too. You can’t give someone a huge open-ended task like “go connect the frontend to the backend.” So either you spell it out for them, or ask them to spell it out for you. “Please break that down into the 5 things you think should be done.” You ask them to fix a bug. You really need to make sure they actually have a full bug report, logs, and the credentials they need to test. They ask you to check if the fix works. You make sure they have access and know how to run it themselves. Fixing it requires changing the user experience, and they don’t know if they made the right tradeoffs. So you explain the business context and the tradeoffs. All of these have pretty clear analogues to prompting AIs.

Your coding agent just changed 50 files You want to understand the new sign-in flow You want to understand the bug that it fixed You want to see how the new data model impacts performance Coming soon to Command Center: Get a walkthrough on anything you want

Big changes are coming

1600 line diff? A new way to deal with it: Ask Claude to break it into a series of small commits. Step 1, etc Then simply go diff-by-diff in Command Center