AI Coding Tip 023 - How to Shrink Your AI's Pull Request

About this episode

The episode discusses how to instruct AI to create smaller, reviewable pull requests before coding.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/ai-coding-tip-023-how-to-shrink-your-ais-pull-request . Tell your AI to split work into small reviewable pull requests before it writes any code Check more stories related to programming at: https://hackernoon.com/c/programming . You can also check exclusive content about #ai-assisted-coding , #artificial-intelligence , #refactoring , #pull-requests , #ai-coding , #ai-coding-workflow , #coding-review-tips , #hackernoon-top-story , and more. This story was written by: @mcsee . Learn more about this writer by checking @mcsee's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . Set the size cap before the agent starts, and ask for the split plan first. That single instruction protects the human who has to read the code.

Topics covered

• AI
• coding
• pull requests
• software development
• programming tips

Keywords

• AI coding
• pull request
• code review
• refactoring
• artificial intelligence

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Organizations: HackerNoon

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