How We Work: Improving Prompting by Learning from Teammates
By Milkana Brace
This is Part 3 of our How We Work series — short reflections from the SageOx team on the tools, techniques, and mental models behind our workflows.
Improving Prompting by Learning from Teammates
Transcript
Milkana: Can you talk about where else or how else you use this technique of finishing the work and then asking Claude to learn from how you got there and whether there's a better way to have gotten there? Where else do you apply this approach?
Ryan: I certainly apply it to the team stuff we're doing with SageOx. Like, looking at what Ajit has been doing lately — how would Ajit solve this problem? And so I use that as a self-reinforcing thing. It's like, the team has learned how to do certain things in a certain way — why am I not embracing that, taking that, applying that? So that's one thing. The other is I'll have—
Milkana: But can I interrupt you? Sorry, but isn't that — you have to use SageOx because SageOx is also capturing what Ajit is doing and feeding that into the context?
Ryan: Correct.
Milkana: Just without SageOx, just in Claude, you wouldn't be able to do that, right?
Ryan: No, some of it I'd be able to do. What you would get out of that is you'd get from the Git history what was implemented.
Milkana: Okay. You'd not get the why.
Ryan: But not the prompts, the intent, the reasoning — which is really kind of what differentiates maybe Ajit's approach from person XYZ's approach. There's only so much you can get from the output. Right, you can see, "Oh, this is a great job," and "Oh, that was interesting how this was structured." But you don't know how it got to that point and what were the important questions to ask.
I found that really useful, especially in bootstrapping my own learning.
Milkana: I think that's where you get a lot of value out of seeing how other people operate.
Ryan: Yeah. It's just like me sharing here — same sort of thing. You'll go look at my sessions and think, "Oh, that was such a genius prompt that you used to get to the root of that problem. I wouldn't have thought of it that way." And so again, there's so much in just how you express to the agents how to think about and reason about what you're trying to ask. Seeing how other people do it is a big jump forward.
We'll be sharing more of what we're learning as we go. Expect other interviews and takeaways. Drop us a note if you'd like a specific topic covered: feedback@sageox.ai.