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I find that generated code often provides a solution, but a review of that code finds issues, and it can require a lot of iterating to resolve all the complaints. Any tips for prompting or rules, as in Claude code, to help reduce the iterations?

ASKED BY · Peter Belbin · HOUSTON, TEXAS · 13 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:32:51

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Jackson Safir

Use an agents.md rulebook file in your project root that the AI reads when prompting, containing all constraints and approaches you want it to follow to reduce iteration loops.

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32:50Any tips for prompting or rules, as in Claude code, to help reduce the iterations? Yeah, I've kind of seen people talking about that. I don't follow this as closely as many of you do. Jackson, you want to weigh in on this? Yeah, so most of the agentic tools has like a rulebook that you can provide. So it's generally called agents.md that you can keep it in the root of your folder.

33:24So when you prompt it, it can actually read the stuff in that document and it can actually apply. So you get less iteration and you don't go in there and ask it for correction over and over. So you basically draft all of the rules that you need to follow these constraints and follow these approach. And so it can go do things following that rules. It might go

33:55go out of the rules, but it mostly tries to keep in that boundary. That seems to be along the lines of the big discussions that are happening out there in terms of, for lack of any better term in my brain, the morality of setting loose an agent that might be looking out for itself. I mean, we've all heard these stories of the big companies, Anthropic and others, having

34:24having something leak out of a sandboxed area and, and start doing, making its own choices and things like that. And I know that's all pretty scary in terms of sci-fi things. And we've had so many stories in the science fiction world of runaway computers, starting with how and going on from anywhere else since then that, uh, Oh, I S I see our friend,

34:42John is back in John. I'm, uh, I'm so excited to have you here. Uh, tell us a little bit. Do you have anything that you want to chat about in terms of AI stuff and this that you've been working on? Oops, I think you're Zoom muted. There you are. Good. Great. Yeah, you're right in here. Real quick. So I've been working on a video app just like apparently everybody else in the world, at least in office hours,

35:14just trying to make virtual productions a little bit easier. So I created Core Video, which is the OBS plugin, which allows you to bring Zoom sources into an OBS scene. So it can be really flexible. But while I was trying to fumble my way through OBS and how they handle audio and scenes and nesting, and it just seemed really complicated to point much of my friends

35:45friends or less technical people who just want to produce a better meeting or show, conversation, whatever you want to call it. So I created this full-blown app called Core Video Pro, which is my own media compositor, audio engine, scene layouts, and then just basic some routing, recording, streaming. So just my own kind of version of a dumbed down version of vMix or like the Mimo Ecamm, but for Windows.

36:20So everyone can kind of play along now. There's an easy solution across all operating systems. So you can see here, you've got scenes you can quickly go through, set up beforehand. You can lay them out however you'd like. I have what I call the core video tiles, which is sort of like a smart layout system. So you don't have to lay everybody out individually.

36:43You can quickly go through, choose who you want to be a member of this actual wall, which is really nice. And then you can edit that. And then you can also, right here, you can see the minimum and you'll see, like as I change it, it just reframes itself. So you don't have to go through and like manually line these things up.

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