Structured Context Before AI: The Rule That Made My Legacy Analysis Tool Useful

A lot of AI-assisted coding tools fail for a simple reason: they ask the model to think before the system has done enough work. That usually leads to one of two outcomes: vague summaries that sound smart but don’t help much confident mistakes wrapped in beautiful prose While building my legacy analysis tool, I kept running into the same conclusion: if you want useful AI output, you need structured context first That rule changed the whole design of the project. The temptation When working with a