Karl Livesey ยท prompting https://livesey.io/tags/prompting/ Posts filed under prompting. The Prompt Wasn't Wrong. The Handover Was. https://livesey.io/posts/the-prompt-wasnt-wrong-the-task-was-underspecified/ urn:uuid:b8bea256-59ec-56e1-8f1b-1d5e0fd72efd Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Before giving work to a coding agent, ask what you would need to tell a developer who already knew the codebase.