I’ve gotten the absolute best results from LLMs just acting like the software engineer I’ve aspired to be the past 15 years.
Normal dev things. Scope the ticket properly, break it down. Test well. Write the correct docs.
LLM specific things are going to be gone next week
I feel this very recently. I just pretend the agent is a junior dev and tell them to do things I don’t have time for. Reviewing the changes at my convenience is a lot like checking in on a junior dev, too. On the other hand I do feel like I get better results with the same teeing up that a junior dev requires, so I try to remove as many unknowns/dependencies as possible (or else explicitly tell it to leave some things as stubs) before sending him off to do something