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Original: https://martinfowler.com/articles/reduce-friction-ai/encoding-team-standards.html
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Language: en
Summary
An article by Rahul Garg published on martinfowler.com in March 2026, part of the series “Patterns for Reducing Friction in AI-Assisted Development”, arguing that the quality of AI-assisted output on a team varies with who is prompting because each developer instructs the AI differently. It proposes treating the instructions that govern AI generation, refactoring, security checks and review as shared infrastructure — versioned, reviewed and kept in the repository — that encodes the team’s tacit knowledge, and describes the anatomy of such instructions, how to surface that knowledge from senior engineers, where the instructions apply in the workflow, and when the approach is worth its cost.