Commit Your Code tip

Danny Thompson delivered the keynote at the Commit Your Code conference in Dallas, offering AI advice for developers. He recommended instructing AI models to read and reread project files before prompting, then asking how changes would affect the codebase, to improve understanding and outcomes.

Danny Thompson just delivered the Commit your Code Keynote. His biggest AI advice was to make the AI read and reread your files before you prompt it. Tell it to ingest the files by reading them. Then say if when change X how will it affect the files. So it has to read the file again to think. Then you tell it to make any changes. S0 it better understands what you want. Commit Your Code https://www.commityourcode.com/ is taking place in Dallas Sep 3&4. You can attend virtually for free or you can donate to them which goes to a charity. I will blog some of my takeaways.