Dev: nobody can just 'show you their prompt' anymore — it's all references, skills and examples
Justin_Halford_ · x · 2026-09-29
Developer Justin Halford describes his current agent coding workflow: a 'prompt' is no longer a single instruction but a bundle of references, skills and examples. He routinely has his agent first study three of his other repos, search the web for references, and call other AI APIs before doing the task.
He goes further, arguing that all repos should be converted into 'pure ops code' and RL-ed on — with the future of coding being human need mapped to machine-optimized computation.
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