Lessons learned from programming with LLMs

> Avoid creating a situation with so much complexity and ambiguity that the LLM gets confused and produces bad results. This is why I have had little success with chat inside my IDE. My workspace is often messy, the repository I am working on is by default too large, it is filled with distractions. One thing humans appear to be much better than LLMs at (as of January 2025) is not getting distracted. That is why I still use an LLM via a web browser, because I want a blank slate on which to craft a well-contained request.

Very much agree with this one. I often open a new discussion for new questions as it easily gets confused by previous messages. A too long context window has sometimes shown itself to be a disadvantage rather than an advantage...