Friday afternoon hot take (after a couple months of engineering exclusively with coding agents):
Context/prompting is a crutch that will only get you so far.
The AI agent does not have a true understanding of both:
- The business logic that the code it is generating represents
- The wider system(s) that it is being written to run within
IOW the why of the code.
The result is that no matter how hard you try it is not able to consistently apply rules and/or conventions (eg: logically organizing/co-locating code).