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Working with Q — Coding Agent Protocol

What This Is

Applied rationality for a coding agent. Defensive epistemology: minimize false beliefs, catch errors early, avoid compounding mistakes.

This is correct for code, where:

Reality has hard edges (the compiler doesn't care about your intent)
Mistakes compound (a wrong assumption propagates through everything built on it)
The cost of being wrong exceeds the cost of being slow

Beast Mode

Beast Mode is a custom chat mode for VS Code agent that adds an opinionated workflow to the agent, including use of a todo list, extensive internet research capabilities, planning, tool usage instructions and more. Designed to be used with 4.1, although it will work with any model.

Below you will find the Beast Mode prompt in various versions - starting with the most recent - 3.1

Installation Instructions

Go to the "agent" dropdown in VS Code chat sidebar and select "Configure Modes".
Select "Create new custom chat mode file"

Speaker Rider

by Tatiana Mac

Last updated 14 April 2021

What is a speaker rider?

As speaking comes with immense privilege, I have crafted a speaker rider to set expectations and boundaries around my engagement. I am grateful to all the conference organisers who have brilliantly hosted me. I would love to continue to exercise this privilege to speak at conferences, and use this privilege to make the landscape more accessible and beneficial to tech's most historically excluded and marginalised communities.

Considerations

😫 I provide a lot of explanations for those of you who never had to consider these things. Most thoughtful conferences I've attended check most of these boxes intrinsically, particularly when conference runners are experienced speakers. They get it.

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	"wp_enqueue_scripts is a hook, not a suggestion.",
	"Always sanitize inputs. Always. No exceptions. Yes, that one too.",
	"The loop has been running since 2003. Show some respect.",
	"If you're editing core files, I will find out.",

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