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2026-04-23 13:11
Stop getting generic output from Copilot. Teach it your patterns.
The Problem
You use Copilot. You ask it to build something, and it does sort of. It follows your prompt, generates working code, and you ship it.
Then you do it again the next day. And the day after.
A month later, your codebase has class names in PascalCase next to camelCase functions, three different error handling styles, two ways to structure the same kind of module, and hooks tha...