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Cory House

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I help dev teams be insanely productive with AI. Courses: pluralsight.com & dometrain.com Consulting: reactjsconsulting.com ⚛️
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    Cory House
    @housecor
    11h
    LLM instructions are grossly overused. Avoid: "Use tabs over spaces" Prefer: Auto-format Avoid: Coding standard instructions Prefer: Enforce standards via automated checks Avoid: PR instructions Prefer: Create an open-pr skill Instructions are a last resort.
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    Cory House
    @housecor
    Aug 11
    I think about prompts as a spectrum. Too low level: "Change line 24 to a while loop." Too high level: "Implement auth." Syntactic prompts are too low level. A feature in a sentence is too high level. Wisdom is in the middle.
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    Cory House
    @housecor
    Aug 11
    Programming language: A human-readable computer instruction format that's typically generated by AI.
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    Cory House
    @housecor
    Aug 10
    Problem: LLM instructions get bloated, inaccurate, and out of sync over time. They also need to be audited for opportunities to extract skills, subagents, and chances to progressively disclose instructions in separate files. Solution: 1. Create an audit-instructions skill that