The day I moved the rules to a place they can't be broken even if you try
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What happened that day Even if you hand an AI agent the rules as a document, once a session grows long the rules stop getting read, and the same violations recur. In development where several agents read and write the same repository in parallel, when the rules stop being followed like this, it leads to accidents: unsaved changes disappear, work proceeds against a stale main, writes to the same file collide. So I stopped relying on getting the rules obeyed at all, and instead moved the rules to…
1Key Takeaways
- What happened that day Even if you hand an AI agent the rules as a document, once a session grows long the rules stop getting read, and the same violations recur.
- In development where several agents read and write the same repository in parallel, when the rules stop being followed like this, it leads to accidents: unsaved changes disappear, work proceeds against a stale main, writes to the same file collide.
- So I stopped relying on getting the rules obeyed at all, and instead moved the rules to….
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that what happened that day Even if you hand an AI agent the rules as a document, once a session grows long the rules stop getting read, and the same violations recur.
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