AI coding

Prompting and instructing AI coding agents

• How to Break a Feature into Tasks an AI Agent Can Finish
• How to Keep an AI Agent from Rewriting Working Code
• Prompting Patterns That Make Coding Agents Reliable
• How to Write a Test List Before You Prompt the Agent
• Sizing a Task so an Agent Finishes It in One Pass
• Choosing Between a Context File, a System Prompt and a Lint Rule
• Making an Agent Name the Field Behind Each Argument
• Prompting an Agent on Test Integrity: What It Follows
• Reading a Prompt Diff for Contradictions With the Context File
• Two Questions in One Prompt: Reason First or Band First
• When to Split a Test List Across Multiple Agent Runs