Matt Pocock: Hide Your Coding Standards From Implementer Agents, Enforce Them in Review
mattpocockuk · x · 2026-09-18
Matt Pocock shared a slide from his aiDotEngineer Paris talk: people wrongly assume their implementer agent should also apply their coding standards. His fix is to hide coding standards from the implementer agent entirely and enforce them during code review instead — separating implementation from standards enforcement.
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