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Jeffrey Emanuel @doodlestein

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Jeffrey Emanuel @doodlestein · 11h
Agent Coding Pro Tip:

After you've gotten an agent (hopefully a frontier one, like Fable Max or GPT Pro) to devise a plan for a new project, follow up with this prompt and see the magic:

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OK, now I want you to think deeply about how to make this entire system as agent-intuitive, agent-ergonomic, and agent-accretive as you can possibly imagine. Put yourself in the driver's seat and imagine that YOU are the one using this system and driving it. What would most enable you to do an awesome job understanding the situation accurately and optimally controlling everything to drive the best and most accurate results possible, with the least expenditure of resources?

Then make all the requisite changes to the various design documents and plans accordingly. Don't just think of the project as an assemblage of various parts or components: really try to profoundly and deeply conceptualize it as a synthetic SYSTEM that is maximally coherent, cohesive, modular, and interconnected, forming a tower of linked abstractions that are maximally legible to you as an agent. Really ruminate and meditate on all of this incredibly deeply before responding or taking any actions.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet by Jeffrey Emanuel offering an agent-coding prompt to follow up on a plan, asking the agent to redesign the system to be agent-ergonomic and legible.

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Jeffrey Emanuel @doodlestein

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Jeffrey Emanuel (verified) @doodlestein · 1h
Agent Coding Pro Tip:

It's WILD how quickly you can get crazy gains using this prompt (and the skills mentioned, from jeffreys-skills.md, naturally) using just Gemini 3.7 Flash, which is basically free, so cheap that it's a rounding error relative to the value of your time:

First read ALL of the AGENTS.md file and README.md file super carefully and understand ALL of both! Then use your code investigation agent mode to fully understand the code and technical architecture and purpose of the project. Then use /profiling-software-performance and then use /repeatedly-apply-skill at least 30 times sequentially to apply /extreme-software-optimization

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Just look at what it spit out on FrankenMarkdown in the last 20 minutes! And this was code written by Fable 5 and Sol... just a couple cool 5,000x+ performance gains, plus a few 2x or more. Easy.

Computers are really fast when you use absolutely every trick in the book to make your code work well on modern hardware.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Jeffrey Emanuel's 'Agent Coding Pro Tip' tweet sharing a prompt that chains skills (profiling, repeated application, extreme software optimization) with Gemini 3.7 Flash, and reporting large performance gains on his FrankenMarkdown project.

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