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General Principles

• AI is a helper, not a substitute for understanding.
• Never trust AI output blindly — review, test, and reason about the solution.
• You should always be able to explain your code in a PR.
• If AI generates something unclear, rewrite it, simplify it, or refactor it manually.

Tools

Cursor

• Recommended for day-to-day engineering.
• Use “Agent Review” before pushing commits.
• Use “Composer” for larger or multi-file changes.

CodeRabbit

• Excellent for:
  • Automated PR reviews
  • Catching structural issues
  • Suggesting improvements
  • Enforcing consistency

Use both AI + human review when merging important changes.

Use the Correct Model for the Task

Reasoning Tasks

Use a reasoning-optimized model for:

• Architecture decisions
• Debugging
• Refactoring large systems