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The failure mode of experienced engineers with AI is over-specifying: telling the model to do the task exactly the way they would have done it.

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  1. Boris Cherny Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic
    So when I look at engineers that have been, you know, coding for a long for a long time, you know, like for for years or for decades, this is a really really common failure mode is trying to over specify and it's trying to be overly specific and then, you know, get the model to do the to do the task exactly the way that you would have done it. And that that's just not the way the model works.

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    27 Jul 2026 · video · 35m · spoken · machine transcript

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