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What makes a good AI coding rule (and what makes agents ignore rules)

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After writing agent configs across a dozen stacks, a pattern emerged: the rules that change behavior share four properties, and the rules that get ignored fail at least one of them. 1: Concrete acts, not aspirations Ignored: "Write clean, maintainable code." Followed: "No unused imports. Delete dea…

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  1. 2026-09-19 06:07 · DEV Community — AI
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