Email: steering - the missing element for quality AI coding

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steering - the missing element for quality AI coding
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8/20/2026, 4:02:07 PM
From:
"Matt Pocock (AI Hero)" <matt@aihero.dev>
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porch.hat.81@rss.andrealin.it
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            Out of the box, agents produce literally average code. Steering is how you take control.
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&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;You might have seen my &lt;a href="https://7751c435.click.kit-mail3.com/4zu902mw77behp7266qaxh63oqokkuqnn5562538zewkdzn0rr794qn6wew8xq6d6gz82dn9n7p4lqx3qxkgdq7dvgwx5lx0mlz3n6m4l8mpem5o6qo4dvod463swwddq/58hvh8ug6v38g3b7u4/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWloZXJvLmRldi9zL2NyYXNoLWNvdXJzZS1haWUtdGFsaw==" style="color:#0875c1" url-id="1879700773"&gt;viral talk from AIE&lt;/a&gt;, now with over 1 million views on YouTube alone, where I talked about how AI coding “accelerates software entropy.” It’s worth a watch if you haven’t.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;But AI coding agents don’t “choose” entropy.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Out of the box, coding agents produce literally average code, because that’s what LLMs do: probabilistic next-token prediction that uses a most-likely weighting based on all the code they were ever trained on.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;And by definition, the most-likely (aka average) is often just not that great.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;But that’s before you take into consideration the other layers I’ve talked about, the layers you can design, tweak, and control.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Agents do things software engineers hate mainly because of…&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em"&gt;A fuzzy or nonexistent picture of “done” for the specific task at hand, which you can fix by using &lt;code&gt;grill-me&lt;/code&gt;
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&lt;li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em"&gt;A poorly structured working environment without positive feedback loops, which you can create using good coding practices and my other AI Coding Loop skills&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em"&gt;Contradictory, ad hoc, or nonexistent steering, which we’re going to talk about today&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Unlike a human coworker, the model performs down to your expectations.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;That’s why steering (that third element!) is critical. And why it’s the focus of today’s email.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Steering is the term for guiding your coding agent in the direction you want, while it’s working. Skills like &lt;code&gt;/grill-me&lt;/code&gt; work so well because they make the destination clear.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;But steering is what keeps your agent on the straight and narrow on its way there.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 style="font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-size:1em;margin:0;font-size:1.5em;margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#000000;line-height:1.5"&gt;So how exactly do you steer your agents?&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;You have a handful of common tools and techniques at your disposal:&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em"&gt;your &lt;a href="https://7751c435.click.kit-mail3.com/4zu902mw77behp7266qaxh63oqokkuqnn5562538zewkdzn0rr794qn6wew8xq6d6gz82dn9n7p4lqx3qxkgdq7dvgwx5lx0mlz3n6m4l8mpem5o6qo4dvod463swwddq/g3hnhwumqdg5mwh3u9/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWloZXJvLmRldi9zL2NyYXNoLWNvdXJzZS1hZ2VudHMtbWQ=" style="color:#0875c1" url-id="1879700776"&gt;AGENTS.md&lt;/a&gt; file, and the instructions inside&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em"&gt;skills you’ve created or installed&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em"&gt;agent memory&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em"&gt;agent permissions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em"&gt;last but not least: token management&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;You’ll learn about, implement, and practice with each of these layers in my &lt;a href="https://7751c435.click.kit-mail3.com/4zu902mw77behp7266qaxh63oqokkuqnn5562538zewkdzn0rr794qn6wew8xq6d6gz82dn9n7p4lqx3qxkgdq7dvgwx5lx0mlz3n6m4l8mpem5o6qo4dvod463swwddq/3ohphdu3poxl35hpun/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWloZXJvLmRldi9zL2NyYXNoLWNvdXJzZQ==" style="color:#0875c1" url-id="1879700778"&gt;AI Coding Crash Course&lt;/a&gt;, but here’s a quick summary of how each one contributes to your control:&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;th bgcolor="#f2f2f2" style="border:1px solid #d0d0d0;background:#f2f2f2;padding:8px 10px;text-align:left;width:32%;"&gt;What it is&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th bgcolor="#f2f2f2" style="border:1px solid #d0d0d0;background:#f2f2f2;padding:8px 10px;text-align:left;"&gt;How it gives you control&lt;/th&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align:top;border:1px solid #d0d0d0;padding:8px 10px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AGENTS.md&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align:top;border:1px solid #d0d0d0;padding:8px 10px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;Holds the universal rules for the agent that are loaded at the start of every session, with things like pointers to commonly-used parts of the codebase for quick navigation.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align:top;border:1px solid #d0d0d0;padding:8px 10px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skills&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align:top;border:1px solid #d0d0d0;padding:8px 10px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;Reusable and composable bundles of instructions, patterns, and code. Pre-built Skills like &lt;code&gt;grill-me&lt;/code&gt; can help the agent run a process.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some can be invoked only when needed (to prevent bloat), others automatically chosen by the agent when they’re relevant.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align:top;border:1px solid #d0d0d0;padding:8px 10px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Memory&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align:top;border:1px solid #d0d0d0;padding:8px 10px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;Automatic storage of some rules and instructions and preferences you tell your agent directly.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sounds amazing, but memory can be a double edged sword, so it’s useful to know how to prune the hidden memory files or even when to disable the feature entirely.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align:top;border:1px solid #d0d0d0;padding:8px 10px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Permissions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align:top;border:1px solid #d0d0d0;padding:8px 10px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;The hard stop for your agent: most of the worst “AI catastrophes” you’ve heard of are due to sloppy permissions regimes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The right permission setting balances speed with control, which can vary per project or even per task.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align:top;border:1px solid #d0d0d0;padding:8px 10px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Token management&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align:top;border:1px solid #d0d0d0;padding:8px 10px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;While not explicitly a steering control in itself, token management is a crucial part of making sure your model doesn’t slip into the “dumb zone” where even the best instructions and memory go out the window.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Of course, you’ll learn ALL of these concepts and how to apply them effectively in the Crash Course 😎.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 style="font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-size:1em;margin:0;font-size:1.5em;margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#000000;line-height:1.5"&gt;Yes, this can feel as strange as it sounds&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;At first, the entire concept of steering an agent can feel a bit alien.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Most of the other steps in my real engineering process have obvious corollaries to thirty-plus years of classic software engineering know-how, but steering feels… new.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;But steering an agent has familiar roots, too.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;If you’ve worked with a team of any size, the elements of agentic steering have a lot in common with the standards you’d set with a team of people through meetings and relationships, company culture, style guides, onboarding, code review, and rules.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;The difference is that people learn from working with each other, day to day… and models don’t.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Without steering in place, agents can respond in seemingly randomized ways to the same request, even when everything else stays exactly the same.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Without steering, agents are amnesiacs, forgetting almost everything you told them between sessions. (And what they do “remember” can seem random, too.)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;This surprises a lot of people, especially when they get great results from an agent the first time, but can’t get it to behave the exact same way ever again.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;This misunderstanding is core to so many AI coding frustrations &amp; failures.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;My advice is to think of steering more like a framework: a deliberate set of practices and tools that you set up and maintain. And it’s the only way to guide an LLM’s behavior reliably in every session.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 style="font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-size:1em;margin:0;font-size:1.5em;margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#000000;line-height:1.5"&gt;To move fast with agents, you must be deliberate&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;If there’s one idea I want you to take away from my emails, it’s this:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;It’s just as easy to go fast in the wrong direction as it is to go fast in the right one.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;LLMs are a force and speed multiplier. They can help you go very, very fast and make incredible things.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;But success at that speed requires you to make choices that will ensure your agent doesn’t end up at the wrong destination…or worse.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 style="font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-size:1em;margin:0;font-size:1.5em;margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#000000;line-height:1.5"&gt;Ready to take the wheel?&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Steering is the final element that separates AI coding success from the failures you hear about every day, and it’s time for you to take control.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;You can learn to intentionally and mindfully steer your agent in the right direction, keeping it in its lane.&lt;/p&gt;

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