AI Coding Tip 038 - Make the AI Ask Before It Builds

A one-line request hides a dozen decisions you never made.

TL;DR: Force the AI to ask about the decisions you left out before it builds anything (/megaplan).

Common Mistake ❌

You type a one-line request like build a site to monitor AI progress and the risk of AI rebelling and expect a working plan back.

The AI doesn't ask where you want to host it, how you want to deploy it, or which stack you already trust.

It fills the blanks for you with plausible statistical decisions.

Then it runs with the implicit decisions, with the quiet confidence of someone who has never once been asked to justify any of them.

Devin's /megaplan command exists because that gap is common enough to deserve its own workflow.

The tool pauses and asks you a structured set of questions before it writes a single file.

Other agentic coding tools ship a similar...

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