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2026-03-19 22:19
Scaffolded Test-First Prompting: Get Correct Code From the First Run
If you use AI to help with coding, the most common failure mode is not that the model is lazy. It is that the target is fuzzy.
You ask for a fix, the assistant guesses what “correct” means, and you get something that looks plausible but is slightly off: wrong edge case, wrong file, wrong abstraction, wrong dependency, or the right idea implemented far too broadly.
A simple way to reduce that fai...