AI Coding Tip 027 - Force Code Standards
Style errors double when nobody enforces them.
TL;DR: Wire your standards into hooks, skills, and a judge, so the harness blocks violations before a human opens the diff.
Common Mistake ❌
You paste your coding standards into AGENTS.md and trust the AI to remember them.
Then a human reviewer manually checksnaming, indentation, and spacing on every pull request.
Nobody wires a hook, a skill, or a judge that blocks the diff before a human ever opens it.
The standards live in prose, and prose is optional.
Problems Addressed 😔
- A CodeRabbit analysis of 470 pull requests found AI-generated code carries roughly 1.7x more defects than human-only code, and nearly 2x more naming and style consistency errors
- Human reviewers burn attention on indentation and casing instead of design, feeding the same broken windows that erode a codebase over time
- Enforcement depends on someone remembering to check...
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