What are people doing with prototypes afterward? Do you end up shipping it as is to production? What about at work? Are the prototypes useful in that context?
You know how when you finish prompting some code generator to build something, and you look over what it has built and feel a sense of emptiness even if it does what you want? I think about what I wish the prototype looked like, and basically start describing details that I expect to exist (think longer versions of e.g. “this should be using our internal graph library, and I figure we can model this task as a traversal, how far have you strayed from this and why?”) and let the agent analyze what it built against my expectations. I’ve spent hours in conversation just “refining the context” this way, and then I channel that into an update process. I figure the prototype is just about proving out behavior, and this next phase is about refining it into the pieces I’ll use elsewhere. It’s kinda fun, I’d absolutely burn out a coworker if I grilled their PRs the way I roast AI contributions :P