When you are stuck, the streak picks the move
Press the same error again and again and watch the advice grow: read it, ask for a smaller step, go back to the save point, start a fresh conversation. A new error resets it.
How many times in a row has the same error come back?
same error in a row: 1
- Read the error
- Ask for a smaller step
- Go back to the save point
- Start a fresh conversation
Read the error
Read the whole message and say in your own words what it claims.
same error in a row: 2
- Read the error
- Ask for a smaller step
- Go back to the save point
- Start a fresh conversation
Ask for a smaller step
Cut the task in half and ask for only the first half.
same error in a row: 3
- Read the error
- Ask for a smaller step
- Go back to the save point
- Start a fresh conversation
Go back to the save point
Return to the last commit that worked and try again from there.
same error in a row: 4
- Read the error
- Ask for a smaller step
- Go back to the save point
- Start a fresh conversation
Start a fresh conversation
Open a new chat and paste a short summary and the one error.
same error in a row: 0
- Read the error
- Ask for a smaller step
- Go back to the save point
- Start a fresh conversation
Read the error
Read the whole message and say in your own words what it claims.
A new error is progress: you got past the last one. Only a repeat means you are going round in a circle.
The count stops at 4: a longer streak keeps the last move.