Developer seeks ways to have AI improve existing features rather than suggest new ones
A developer with over a year of AI-assisted project building reports difficulty getting AI to suggest improvements on existing features instead of proposing new ones. They have tried asking the AI to scan a project directory but find it consistently veers toward new feature suggestions.
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