# How Project Conventions Help AI Agents Write Go Backend Code

DevFeed: [How Project Conventions Help AI Agents Write Go Backend Code](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-ai-agents-want-to-write-go-17809.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://encore.dev/blog/golang-ai>)

Author: Ivan Cernja

Published: 2026-02-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Encore Updates](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/encore-updates.md>)

Topics: [Go Language](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/go-language.md>), [Framework](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/framework.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>)

Tags: [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [apis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apis.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [business-logic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business-logic.md>), [go](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that AI agents produce more consistent Go backend code when a project already provides conventions for service structure, typed APIs, and declared infrastructure. Without those conventions, agents must choose routers, middleware, connection handling, file layouts, error handling, and testing approaches, producing varied but valid architectures.

## Source excerpt

And what happens when you actually let them.