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Have you tried using Agents that have system prompts that tell AI not just what you want to produce (java, python, typescript,...) but also include best practices to follow?

You can even give examples of what to do (simplify and stick to the objective) and what not to do (verbose and non-value add).

Although code never works the first time, has happened that AI suggested some nice abstraction and changed some function and variables naming to make it easier for me to remember next time...

I also prefer spoon-feeding AI and having a conversation about specific pieces of code to refactor, or features to add. That leads to smaller and more pragmatic use of AI vs the "build me an app that does XYZ in 2 seconds" that leads to code-dump mode.