Preparing Your Project Before Asking an AI for Code

Series "Learning to Code with AI" — Article 2/7 TL;DR A coding agent works best when the need, stack, conventions, and validation criteria are explicit. Preparing the project isn’t about writing a fifty-line prompt. It’s about making the decisions that structure learning yourself. The First Prompt Shouldn’t Ask for Code When discovering Claude Code or Codex, the temptation is immediate: describe…