Interesting, and not quite my experience. While I do get better agentic coding results for Python projects, I also get good results working with Common Lisp projects. I do have a habit of opening an Emacs buffer and writing a huge prompt with documentation details, sometimes sample code in other languages or if I am hitting APIs I add a working CURL example. For Common Lisp my initial prompts are often huge, but I find thinking about a problem and prompt creation to be fun.
The article mentions a REPL skill. I don’t do that: letting model+tools run sbcl is sufficient.
The article mentions a REPL skill. I don’t do that: letting model+tools run sbcl is sufficient.