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I gave my coding agent an onboarding doc. It stopped fighting me.

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The first month with an AI coding agent, I did what most people do: I got better at prompting. I learned to say "be minimal", to paste error logs, to ask for plans first. It helped a little. What actually changed things was unglamorous — I wrote the onboarding doc I would give a new hire, and point…

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  1. 2026-10-28 15:07 · DEV Community — AI
    I gave my coding agent an onboarding doc. It stopped fighting me.

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