Force Your LLM to Spike
I keep hearing that LLMs aren’t good engineers. I think I figured out why, and possibly how to address it. Here’s what I was seeing in my Claude Code workflow. Even with comprehensive specs - detailed HLD, implementation specs, task breakdown - there’s still ambiguity between knowing what to build and knowing the best approach to take when building it. When I’d run /plan-task, Claude would pick a viable path and run with it, without exploring alternatives, because it’s not built to do otherwise. ...