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What context should you give AI in a prompt to get decent code?

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Essence

The model sees only what you gave it and what the agent read in the repository on its own. Everything else it fills in from the "average" code on the internet: an average iOS version, an average style, an average architecture. A good prompt narrows that space down to your project.

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