TLDR Dev · OPINIONS & ADVICE

ENCODING TEAM STANDARDS

martinfowler.com8 min read

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The output quality of AI-assisted development depends heavily on who is prompting, since only senior engineers consistently embed necessary architectural and security constraints. The solution is to treat AI instructions for code generation and review as versioned, repo-level infrastructure, ensuring consistent execution of team judgment regardless of the individual engineer.