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Vibe Coding2026-06-07 · source-backed
From Simon Willison's Agentic Engineering Patterns: pointing a coding agent at an existing codebase as a style reference is a high-leverage shortcut, "use another codebase as reference" communicates complex conventions in almost no prompt tokens. The catch he made explicit after watching it fail: clone the reference into /tmp, not inside your project, so the agent can't accidentally commit reference code. Source: Simon Willison Small detail, saves you a embarrassing PR.
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