> 1. Describe problem with lots of details (often recording 20-60 mins of voice, transcribe)
I just ask it to give me instructions for a coding agent and give it a small description of what I want to do, it looks at my code, and details what I describes as best as it can, and usually I have enough to let Junie (JetBrains AI) run on.
I can't personally justify $200 a month, I would need to see seriously strong results for that much. I use AI piecemeal because it has always been the best way to use it. I still want to understand the codebase. When things break its mostly on you to figure out what broke.
A small description can be extrapolated to a large feature, but then you have to accept the AI filling in the gaps. Sometimes that is cool, often times it misses the mark. I do not always record that much, but if I have a vague idea that I want to verbalize, I use recording. Then I take the transcript and create the PRD based on it. Then I iterate a few more times on the PRD - which yield much better results.
I just ask it to give me instructions for a coding agent and give it a small description of what I want to do, it looks at my code, and details what I describes as best as it can, and usually I have enough to let Junie (JetBrains AI) run on.
I can't personally justify $200 a month, I would need to see seriously strong results for that much. I use AI piecemeal because it has always been the best way to use it. I still want to understand the codebase. When things break its mostly on you to figure out what broke.