How I Use AI to Write Platform-Specific Code (Without Getting Generic Output)

If you've used AI to write code for more than a week, you've hit this wall:

You ask for a component. It gives you something that works — technically — but looks nothing like your actual codebase. Wrong naming conventions. Wrong library usage. Wrong patterns. You spend 20 minutes rewriting the thing you asked it to write.

The output isn't bad. It's just generic. And generic doesn't ship.

Here's how I stopped getting boilerplate and started getting code I can actually use.

The Root Cause: AI Doesn't Know Your Stack