Drew Breunig talking about how prompts of an experienced developer is more detailed than the average user, which in turn leads to a better outcome.
Most talented developers do not appreciate the impact of the intuitive knowledge they bring to their coding agent.
We’ve all seen the posts by developer luminaries. They haven’t written code in weeks. They gave a hard problem to Claude Code or Codex and it just worked.
But what we don’t see is their prompts. And having seen many prompts by many types of devs, I would wager their prompts are relatively specific and offer more guidance to the LLM than your average user. And these specifics don’t have to be exhaustive. Even knowing the right terms to use can have enormous impact and activate an entirely different set of weights in the model than someone writing, “the search is broken fix it.”
Skilled programmers, with plenty of experience, don’t even think about how to ask correctly. They just do, intuitively. And things work well. If the agent and dev go through multiple turns, this effect gets even more significant.
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