{"slug": "ask-hn-what-rules-does-your-team-have-for-using-ai-in-a-durable-codebase", "title": "Ask HN: What rules does your team have for using AI in a durable codebase?", "summary": "A Hacker News user asks what rules teams have for using AI in a durable codebase. A commenter shares that their team uses an Architecture Decision Record and opinionated policies in a Django codebase to maintain quality despite extensive use of LLMs, shifting effort to code review and using AI tools to review pull requests.", "body_md": "Hacker News\nnew\n|\npast\n|\ncomments\n|\nask\n|\nshow\n|\njobs\n|\nsubmit\nlogin\nAsk HN: What rules does your team have for using AI in a durable codebase?\n1 point\nby\nctenb\n23 minutes ago\n|\nhide\n|\npast\n|\nfavorite\n|\n1 comment\nWhat guidelines/manifest do you have set up in your team for using AI responsibly to generate production code that has to be maintained long-term?\nhelp\nN_Lens\n15 minutes ago\n|\nnext\n[–]\nHaving an ADR and opinionated policies in our Django codebase has helped maintain quality despite extensive use of LLMs to generate code. It also helps that more effort has shifted to code review and we also use AI tools to help review PRs.\nreply\nGuidelines\n|\nFAQ\n|\nLists\n|\nAPI\n|\nSecurity\n|\nLegal\n|\nApply to YC\n|\nContact\nSearch:", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-rules-does-your-team-have-for-using-ai-in-a-durable-codebase", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48627038", "published_at": "2026-06-22 07:45:50+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-22 08:11:04.868553+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Hacker News", "Django", "LLMs"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-rules-does-your-team-have-for-using-ai-in-a-durable-codebase", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-rules-does-your-team-have-for-using-ai-in-a-durable-codebase.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-rules-does-your-team-have-for-using-ai-in-a-durable-codebase.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-rules-does-your-team-have-for-using-ai-in-a-durable-codebase.jsonld"}}