Treat Your AI Agent Like a New Engineer
Most AI coding agent failures are not prompt problems. They are onboarding problems.
3 articles about codebase-readiness - lessons from building and scaling real software.
Most AI coding agent failures are not prompt problems. They are onboarding problems.
AI agents produce better output when the codebase is ready for them. Here are the four dimensions of codebase readiness that account for most of the gap.
When AI agents don't follow your team's conventions, the instinct is to fix the prompt or switch models. The real bottleneck is usually the codebase itself.