Persistent Prompting

How to reliably guide AI coding assistants toward good changes without constant corrections

AI pair programming requires a different skill than traditional code review—you're not evaluating finished work but steering a generative process. Beck explores the gap between what AI can do and what it does reliably, and why prompt engineering often becomes prompt negotiation.

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Questions this essay answers

  • How do I write prompts that consistently produce good code from AI assistants?
  • Why does AI-assisted coding feel like damage control rather than acceleration?
  • What's the difference between getting AI to generate code and getting it to generate *good* code?
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