[flagged]
Have you tried explicitly asking them about the latter? If you just tell them to code, they aren't going to work on figuring out the software engineering part: it's not part of the goal that was directly reinforced by the prompt. They aren't really all that smart.
I get it. It quacks like a duck, so seems like if you feed it peas it should get bigger ". But it's not a duck.
There's a distinction between "I need to tell my LLM friend what I want" and "I need to adjust the context for my statistical LLM tool and provide guardrails in the form of linting etc".
It's not that adding prose description doesn't shift the context - but it assume a wrong model about what is going on, that I think is ultimately limiting.
The LLM doesn't really have that kind of agency.
Also, it prevents repetitive strain injury. At least, it does for me.