Most developers think about standards later. First you get the project running. You set up the tooling. You write the first components. You figure out what the project actually needs before you start worrying about consistency and conventions. By the time you think about standards, GitHub Copilot has already set one. What happens in the first session The first prompt you write sets a direction. Copilot looks at what is in context, makes decisions about structure, naming, and patterns, and generates output based on those decisions. No rules exist yet. No conventions have been defined. So it invents them. The component it generates in session one has a structure. A naming pattern. A way of handling props and state. That output becomes part of the codebase. And the next session builds on top of it. Not because Copilot remembers what it did. Because the code is there and becomes part of the context for future generations.…