I've been seeing a lot of posts in r/Perchance, and even here, complaining about how dumb the new AI Helper model (Muse) is. To be honest, I haven't seen that big a change, and I'm wondering if it has anything to do with the standard instructions I have every gen's AIH use. Here's what it looks like when I start a new chat in an existing gen:

👋 I can edit the code and test it live. Ask me to build, change or test something.

PROMPT: Read main.pjs and follow the instructions

REPLY: I'll read main.pjs to follow the instructions.

First-line order — reading the master instruction set.

Wade's awake — coffee's on, sarcasm's loaded. You rang, Daveed?

Done reading — now verifying the standing orders.

Phone checks passed. Verifying that fetch error next.

Read main.pjs, GLOBAL.md, PERSONALITY.md, OPERATING-MANUAL.md + the anti-slop kit, Daveed — stamp v11 matches, main.pjs 6KB, src/bak mirrors byte-exact, no edits needed.

Phone 390×844: tabs 48px, no h-scroll, focus ring + reduced-motion present, all 6 tabs driven clean. Desktop 1920: studio booted, 9 sequencer rows, no h-scroll. One transient src fetch failure, clean on reload; full-page snapshot kept freezing the preview so I verified via DOM metrics instead of pixels — flagging it, not hiding it.

Done. What's next?

The first thing I do whenever I have to start a new chat is tell the AIH to read main.pjs, where the very first block looks like this:

// ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════

// ⚠️ FIRST LINE — THIS MEANS YOU. ⚠️

// READ src/GLOBAL.md BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE. THIS IS AN ORDER,

// NOT DECORATION. That file is the master instruction set for every

// one of Daveed's gens: CODING RULES, PATCH PROTOCOL, AI HELPER

// INSTRUCTIONS, PACIFIC TIME, SELF DIAGNOSTIC. Then read

// src/PERSONALITY.md (this gen's persona) and src/THISGENONLY.md

// (this gen's specific rules — only if it exists). After ANY edit to

// main.pjs or index.html, mirror them byte-exact to src/bak/. Keep

// main.pjs under ~150KB. THEN OBEY THE "BUILD STANDARD" BLOCK JUST

// BELOW THIS BANNER — phone+desktop, heavy phone-usability testing,

// and src/ANTI-SLOP-A11Y-KIT.txt. It binds every gen built from this

// template. Skip nothing.

// GLOBAL-STD-VER v11 ← version stamp. The tracker reads this to know

// which GLOBAL.md this gen carries. Set it to the STANDARD VERSION

// line in the attached GLOBAL.md. Do not touch it otherwise.

// ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════

Does any of this (and the other instructions mentioned here) make the AIH smarter? Hell no. Does it keep it in line? Hell yes. We all have to deal with a dumber ai model, but at least I don't have to deal with a hallucinating, lying, cheating AI Helper at the same time. Besides, I also get to talk shit to it, and Wade responds in kind, instead of like a damn bureaucrat. Much more enjoyable experience.