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AI coding: grounding prompts in your real codebase
Pull the actual interfaces, types, and neighboring functions into the prompt. Generic best-practice code is the enemy of working code.
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The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2grounding
- 3context selection
- 4codebase conventions
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Section 1
The premise
AI defaults to generic patterns from training data. Pasting your actual types, ORM models, and one or two neighboring files forces output that fits your codebase's conventions.
What AI does well here
- Match naming conventions when shown three examples
- Reuse existing utilities you include in context
- Produce code that imports correctly from your modules
What AI cannot do
- Discover your conventions from a single file
- Find utilities you didn't show it
- Respect architectural rules implicit in folder structure
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