Every React project has a standard. The question is not whether one exists. The question is who defined it. For a long time I did not think about this. I opened a session, wrote a prompt, reviewed the output, moved on. The project grew. The codebase grew. And somewhere along the way I realized that the standard GitHub Copilot had been applying was not mine. It was whatever made sense to the AI in that moment, in that session, with whatever context it had available. Different sessions. Different decisions. Different output. A standard that looked like no standard at all. What an invented standard actually looks like It does not announce itself. It looks like a components folder where similar things are structured slightly differently. A project where naming is consistent in some files and improvised in others. State that lives in hooks in one feature and inline in the UI in another. Nothing is dramatically wrong. Everything is slightly off. And slightly off at scale becomes very expensive very fast.…