Prompt engineering
My best failure took 36 hours
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- July 20, 2026
Kickoff Seventeen commits. Thirty-six hours. Abandoned. Let me tell you about the best project I ever killed. Late January 2026, I took one more run at an old dream: a proper prompt distribut
Recap: Act I — The Before Times
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- July 20, 2026
Three posts in, and the prompt era is behind us. Before the story speeds up, the recap — and a clean place to join if you're new here. Act I was August to November 2025, and it looked like this:
My first agent managed my music downloads. It still does.
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- July 20, 2026
Kickoff The first genuinely useful thing my AI setup ever did was tidy my downloaded music. Not a rule. Not a threat. A chore, quietly delegated. August 2025, one day after starting my prompt
Anatomy of a naive prompt library
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- July 20, 2026
Kickoff My 2025 prompt library had a filing system a Victorian clerk would have admired, in service of a legal code no court would recognize. 001-Central-Context.md. `200-Standards-Context.
In August 2025 I was shouting at an LLM in all-caps
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KickoffMANDATORY: You MUST work ONLY in the specified working directory. NO EXCEPTIONS.That is Clause 27 of a legal code with a jurisdiction of one machine and no court of appeal. I wrot