Make Agents Cite Your Design Rationale to Preserve Intent

Developers share practices for keeping AI-agent projects coherent: have agents cite design decisions verbatim, always document rationale, use Chesterton's Fence formatting, timestamp documents, and prefer explanations over hard rules to prevent stale context.

2026-10-09 ~ 2026-10-09 · 3 related posts

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