Rails, Not Rules: enforcing a coding agent's domain vocabulary with checks (opens in new tab)

Why I stopped telling my coding agent the domain language and started enforcing it. I wrote my coding agent's rules for the project's terminology as prose on April 24. I wrote a script to check those rules on May 2. The first run found 737 violations, in a codebase of roughly 150,000 lines that the agent had written under my direction and that I had, ostensibly, been keeping consistent the whole way. It's worth being precise about what those 737 were, because the easy reading (the agent ignor...