Stop treating AI like a magic code generator that gets it right on the first shot! Here's how to actually level up your AI-assisted coding game 🚀

Challenge the first proposal of your coding assistant and ask it to double check. Do this as many times as necessary until both the assistant and you are satisfied with the reasoning and assessment. It's basically "manual chain of thought" and it works great for me for complex code changes

Also 4 essential hacks I use daily with Cursor, Windsurf & other AI coding IDEs/assistants.
👉 tell your code assistants to:

1. Be thorough & laser-focused
2. Think through all implications of code changes
3. Don't break stuff
4. Provide a game plan

BONUS: Fun idea at the end! 📚 I'm thinking about crafting something along the lines of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GenAI Coding Universe - A Developer's Manual for Surviving AI-Assisted Coding"
Drop a 📘 in the comments if this sounds like something that would be useful for your AI coding quests. Maybe we can turn this into a crowd-sourced guide!

Super curious the hear what works for YOU! 👉 drop me a comment and share your own AI coding hacks!

⌨️ Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:07 tl;dv: quick rundown of my AI-assisted coding hacks
00:37 Please watch till the end
00:50 Been running on Cursor for the last 2 weeks
01:14 The internal tool I'm creating
03:01 The feature I want to add
03:31 My AI-assisted coding hacks in more detail
05:49 Explicitly point out "typical pitfalls" where you anticipate the AI failing
08:36 Don't take the seemingly easy way - insist and stay in the driver's seat
09:36 Throwing an idea out there: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GenAI Coding Universe

Hope you get something out of this! 🙂✌️

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