ben guo 🪽 on X: "How to code better with AI using this one weird trick" (opens in new tab)

My AI coding advice boils down to one weird trick: a planning prompt. You can get a lot of mileage out of simply planning changes before implementing them. Planning forces you into a more intentional practice. And it lets you perform leveraged thinking – simulating changes in an environment where iteration is fast and cheap (a simple document). Planning is a spectrum. There’s a slider between “pure vibe coding” and “meticulous planning”. In the early days of our codebase, I would plan every c...