3 AI Pair Programming Rules I Follow After 100 Sessions

I've been using AI assistants for pair programming almost daily for the past few months. After roughly 100 sessions, I've converged on three rules that consistently produce better code and fewer rewrites. These aren't theoretical. They come from tracking what worked, what failed, and what cost me hours of debugging. Rule 1: Never Accept the First Draft The biggest mistake I made early on was treating the first response as the answer. It almost never is. AI assistants optimize for plausible-looking code.