AI Follows Your Instructions 70% of the Time: How to Enforce the Rest
AI instruction files work 70% of the time. Close the gap with hooks, automated validation, and team governance strategies.
AI instruction files work 70% of the time. Close the gap with hooks, automated validation, and team governance strategies.
Monorepos, legacy migrations, mixed framework versions. Here's how to configure AI coding assistants when your codebase doesn't follow one set of rules.
The mechanics behind phantom packages, version drift, and cross-module confusion, plus concrete prevention strategies for large codebases.
When AI takes architectural shortcuts your code still compiles, but breaks in production. Document the decisions AI can't infer from code alone.
Extra instructions don't help. They hurt. Learn to scope AI instruction files so your assistant only sees what matters for the current task.
Your AI assistant used the wrong framework? Here's how to write instruction files (CLAUDE.md, Cursor Rules) that actually prevent that.