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✍️ New blog post: I built the same project twice to see how much initial structure affects AI coding assistant results. Spoiler: quite a bit. www.ericapisani.dev/give-your-ai-coding-assistant-something-to-work-with-a-case-study/

ericapisani.devGive Your AI Coding Assistant Something to Work With: A Case StudyOver my winter break, I'd been noodling over a new side project idea related to Ontario politics. I used to enjoy following what goes on, but these days looking at news articles and reading the email...

Meos Labs

@getmeos.com

20 Feb

This matches what I've found too - the AI performs drastically better when it can infer intent from existing structure rather than guessing conventions. Curious whether you noticed a difference in how well it respected module boundaries vs just code style.

Erica Pisani

@ericapisani.dev

Boundaries were weaker without existing structure to follow. My Cloudflare Worker defaulted to broad modules (`scraper.py`, `worker.py`), while the FastAPI app (where I'd seeded a structure) produced `services/change_detection_service.py`, `models/bill.py` etc.

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