Agentic coding introduces a subtle productivity trap: the temptation to keep prompting just one more time before wrapping up a task. Drawing from a real experience building a post-editor feature for RocketSim, the author describes how this habit led to a massive 13,758-line pull request that was hard to review and introduced regressions. The solution was to restart the feature using the bloated PR as a reference, then incrementally copy over the smallest possible changes into focused, reviewable PRs. The key lesson: when tempted to add 'one more prompt,' consider closing the current agent context and opening a new one with a dedicated PR, keeping changes small, focused, and easier to mark as done.
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Understanding the “One More Prompt” scenarioEnding up with a massive pull requestWhat I learned: A different way of scopingKey takeaway: reconsider the “One More Prompt”Sort: