Codebase-Readiness

Rails gives AI agents what most stacks don't: conventions, strong defaults, and less custom infrastructure to verify.

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.