So true. I have some non-typical preferences for code style. One example is I don’t like nested error checks in Go. It’s not a correctness issue, it’s just a readability preference. Claude and copilot continually ignore this no matter how much emphasis I give it in the instructions. I recently found a linter for this, and the agent will fix it when the linter points out the issue.

This is probably because the llm is trained on millions of lines of Go with nested error checks vs a few lines of contrary instructions in the instructions file.

I keep fighting this because I want to understand my tools, not because I care that much about this one preference.