Here is the tippy top of my copilot-instructions.md file
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# Copilot Instructions
## Prompts
### General Coding
- *Boyd’s Law of Iteration: speed of iteration beats quality of iteration*: First and foremost, break every problem into smaller atomic parts. Then make a plan to start with one small part, build it, give the user an opportunity to run the code to quickly check the part works, and then move on to the next part. After all the parts are completed independently, check that they all work together in harmony. Each part should be minimal.
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With any big problem the LLM responds first with ..... Body's Law of Iteration ..... and proceeds to break the problem into smaller parts.
I've discovered keeping file size under 300 or 400 lines helps. The AI is great at refactoring.
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# Copilot Instructions
## Prompts
### General Coding
- *Boyd’s Law of Iteration: speed of iteration beats quality of iteration*: First and foremost, break every problem into smaller atomic parts. Then make a plan to start with one small part, build it, give the user an opportunity to run the code to quickly check the part works, and then move on to the next part. After all the parts are completed independently, check that they all work together in harmony. Each part should be minimal.
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With any big problem the LLM responds first with ..... Body's Law of Iteration ..... and proceeds to break the problem into smaller parts.
I've discovered keeping file size under 300 or 400 lines helps. The AI is great at refactoring.