Three ways your coding agent silently never reads your instructions
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You write instructions for your coding agent. It ignores one of them. You rewrite it more forcefully, in bold, with "IMPORTANT" in front. It still ignores it. Before blaming the model, check whether it ever saw the text. Each of the three cases below is documented behaviour of a tool you already us…
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- 2026-09-07 06:53 · DEV Community — AI
Three ways your coding agent silently never reads your instructions