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“You are a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience.” If you’ve spent any time in prompt engineering circles, you’ve seen this advice. Persona prompting—giving the AI a role...
Read more →Sonnet loses 8 points with context noise. Opus gains 4. Your model choice determines whether bloated prompts hurt. I ran 1,080 benchmarks to answer a question that haunts every AI-assisted...
Read more →The conventional wisdom is simple: use the biggest model you can afford. Opus for quality, Haiku for speed, Sonnet when you want something in between. The assumption is that model...
Read more →“Think step by step.” It’s one of the most widely repeated pieces of prompt engineering advice. Add a chain-of-thought (CoT) instruction to your system prompt and the model reasons more...
Read more →There’s a running joke in the AI community about people who say “please” and “thank you” to their LLMs. The implication is that it’s sentimental, anthropomorphizing—treating a statistical model like...
Read more →I went to Game On Expo 2026 in Phoenix with one goal: see what a gaming convention’s RF environment actually looks like from the ground. One Samsung S21, WiGLE running...
Read more →The Next Knob to Test After I published “I Ran 540 Benchmarks to Prove CLAUDE.md Compression Works”, I got a recurring question: what about temperature? Fair question. If compressing your...
Read more →A few days ago I published “Compress Your CLAUDE.md”, arguing that you should strip human-readable formatting from your CLAUDE.md files to save 60-70% of context bloat. The logic seemed sound:...
Read more →Matt Pocock recently put out a video called “Never Run claude /init” about managing your CLAUDE.md files to avoid context rot. The core argument: claude /init generates verbose boilerplate that...
Read more →Last year, I signed up for a popular budgeting app. During setup, it asked for my bank login credentials. Not an API token. Not read-only access. My actual username and...
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