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Developer iteratively refines AI 'devil's advocate' tool over five rewrites

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The author details the iterative development of a "devil's advocate" tool within their sonmat application, which aims to combat AI-generated confident errors. Initially named "imp" and released on April 2nd, the tool underwent five significant revisions over 24 days, culminating in version 0.11.0 on April 26th. Key changes included renaming the tool to "devil" for clarity, integrating it into a larger verification system with "Rhythm Rules," and refining the readability of its balance table by transforming abstract column headers into direct questions. AI

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  1. dev.to — Claude Code tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Jun0 ·

    My devil's advocate worked. That was the bug.

    <h2> Why a single tool got rewritten five times </h2> <p>Inside sonmat there's a slash command called <code>/devil</code>. When you arrive at a confident conclusion, it sits down and beats on it for a minute. Devil's advocate. A well-known reasoning move. I figured wrapping it in…

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