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Chat-Driven Development: A Better Way to Use LLMs for Coding


In the last couple of years, I have subscribed to GitHub Copilot multiple times, each time canceling its subscription. It never felt natural to me, feeling annoying and getting too much in my way. …

I feel I’m in more control as I can be explicit about what I want, work on smaller problems, and pass relevant context. Clean slate advantage: The author mentions that IDE workspaces are often messy, repositories too large, and full of distractions. Feedback cycle: The author finds that using chat makes it easier to iterate on code by simply pasting compiler errors or test failures back to the LLM for corrections, without cluttering the IDE workspace.

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