Comment by Rapzid

Codify your project working philosophy in AGENTS.md and of course skills. Give AI an example of code you liked and code you didn't; let it help you articulate some succinct rules or philosophies that capture your preferences(for example I prefer early return, limiting nesting, unnecessary tests, excessive local error handling, comments that are self explanatory, etc).

Then have a separate review agent review the work against your codified working philosophy. THEN, give it a review yourself(just don't tell anyone you look at code or you'll get called a boomer).

You said you've tried this but that it hasn't helped massively. I have found this to help massively just not without fault.

The struggle is real though.