Matt Pocock: your CODING_STANDARDS.md should be empty for only 5 minutes
mattpocockuk · x · 2026-09-26
Matt Pocock shares his approach to CODINGSTANDARDS.md for AI coding agents: don't design it upfront — it should only be empty for about 5 minutes.
- Every meaningful mistake your agent makes gets noted: forgotten dark mode, missing validation rules, wrong framework primitives.
- Use a /retro command to fill it, or edit it yourself.
The idea: let the standards file grow organically from real agent errors instead of pre-writing it.
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