It is a strange time. I personally have seen a lot of people produce very high quality code using AI - code that is well factored and tested. I have repeatedly experienced AI producing higher code quality than what many developers can produce. At the same time I see many people post about having the opposite experience. It is very hard to understand why people can have such polar opposite experiences.

I worked with three such posters who had a bad experience that were close friends of mine. In all three cases we discovered that the tools they were using were suboptimal and that they were not configured to provide anything even close to the best outcome.

Because of this experience, I decided to write this blog post. In the post I walk you through the tools I use, and more importantly, how I configure them. In my view, this makes a huge difference in the quality of code that is produced.

This is a quote from the post → “Think of the agent as a fast car without a steering wheel and brakes. Your job is to tailor it for your specific workflow and needs.”