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Your agent keeps guessing your conventions. Write the file it actually reads.

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Every team I have watched adopt Cursor, Claude Code or Codex hits the same wall in week two. The agent writes plausible code that does not fit the repo. It invents a test command. It puts a component in src/components/ when everything else lives in app/ui/ . It edits a file that is generated. The u…

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  1. 2026-09-26 00:06 · DEV Community — AI
    Your agent keeps guessing your conventions. Write the file it actually reads.

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