How I Write Instructions My AI Coding Agent Actually Follows: 5 Lessons
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TL;DR I spent a year iterating on the markdown instruction files that steer my AI coding agent, and most of what I wrote in the first six months was silently ignored. 💡 The instructions that actually changed behavior were short, testable, and written like constraints — not like a style guide. Here…
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- 2026-09-14 14:32 · DEV Community — AI
How I Write Instructions My AI Coding Agent Actually Follows: 5 Lessons