Your AI Coding Tool Has No Idea What Your Codebase Is Supposed To Do

Introducing Intent Files - the missing bridge between your repository and your AI Originally published on Medium Every developer I know has hit the same wall. You open Copilot or Gemini, ask it to write a service class, and it generates something that works — but violates half your team's coding standards. Wrong naming conventions. Logic too complex. The entire business flow crammed into one function. So you write another prompt to fix it. Then another. Every session. Every file. Every devel...