I have a ~200 line file of style rules that I copy and paste between all my projects(There's got to be a better way to manage files like that!) but I can never quite tell if it's helping anything....

I usually prompt with very specific architectures, defining classes, functions, and JSON schemas, plus what libraries I want to use, and that seems to work, most of the time.

I generally use AiderDesk with MiniMax M2.5

I have very much enjoyed GSD as a framework within claude code https://github.com/open-gsd/gsd-core

Step one is to get out of the ChatGPT web interface. OpenCode is a much better harness

Step 2, have it write a plan in a file, then iterate on that plan

Download dependency source code and API specs for it to reference

Be specific, you wanted it to use a specific API but then said "use any API like .."

Don't expect a single session to get you there, use many and keep them fresh (the design/plan/status files help)

Read Anthropic knowledge share, it is currently the best and applies in generality

We don't use "LLMs" to generate code, we use "agent harnesses" and "context engineering". Good phrases to start your knowledge deepening

Give your agent good tools and context, then iterate