AI tooling

The review loop I give my AI pair

Prompting is scaffolding. The interesting part is what you refuse to accept back.

FFahriddin Salaydinov·Mar 11, 2026·6 min read

Most of the advice about working with a model is about how to ask. Very little of it is about what you do with the answer, which is where the whole quality difference lives.

Three rejections

I reject a change if it adds a dependency I did not ask for, if it changes a public signature to make a test pass, or if it explains itself in the diff instead of in the review. None of these are style preferences; each one has cost me a day at some point.

What survives that filter is usually small, and usually right. The loop is slower to run and much cheaper to trust.

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Written byFahriddin Salaydinov

Full-stack developer and QA engineer. I write about agentic testing and the parts of AI tooling that survive contact with a real codebase.

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