Debug and Rebug: The Records of a Developing Developer

Claude 3.7 Sonnet with a separate "watchdog" LLM model? I am wondering about using Claude 3.7 Sonnet (let's call it C3.7S) with another LLM, separate from the Claude model, "watching" over it to monitor when it goes off its rails.   I have been using C3.7S since the inception of my DF game project.  From the first, when I was planning it's structure, I used Claude (from 3.0, through 3.5, and now 3.7....I wonder what's next?  Claude 3.85?).  I have seen an increase in "thinking" capability.  But I'm not sure I have seen an increase in quality of code. Sometimes Claude "goes off the rails".  Often, it will over-complicate or over-engineer some code block.  Routinely, I need to review its output for that practice.  So I'm wondering, now, about how I could have a secondary "team member" monitoring its work.  In this case, specifically for writing more code than is necessary for the prompt, requirement, or task as specifi...

The LLM (the guide-on-the-side and the sage-on-the-stage) and Me (the developing junior) (The dangers of getting your place wrong in the "I do; we do; you do" sequence) In public education, there is an approach to instruction that is informally called "I do; we do; you do."  It's formally called "gradual release of responsibility".  In education, the approach is a type of strategy.  In coding, such as strategy would have several frameworks based on it. Consider the latest crop of ever-more-sophisticated LLMs, and how we use them in coding.  I am experimenting with the Claude 3.7 Sonnet (its latest model) with Extended Thinking mode (by default, giving it more time to consider). While using LLMs with my coding, I have strived to keep my working pattern as "the constant conversation" with the LLM in question.  That is, I started a new project (my text-based, turn-based game) and began using the LLM from the get-go.  I start a new chat (since ch...