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I consider my prompts and prompting style to be trade secrets. I've developed a very efficient and productive workflow for myself over the years without tutorials, without books, etc.

Anthropic is making very strange and very opinionated decisions far too often for my liking. It's really making me second guess my continued use of Claude Code.



> I consider my prompts and prompting style to be trade secrets.

No one wrote this with a straight face did they?


Yes? If I've developed a prompting style over the past four years that produces efficient and secure code bases with novel features, I consistently out-perform my colleagues using the same tools, and it is how I make money, then I don't see how it is not a trade secret.

Talking to customers is the most important thing, not sure prompting really matters at all, LLMs lack true novel creativity and cannot prioritize product features based on direct customer value.

You haven't. This shit ain't rocket surgery, dude.

There are many options, big fan of open weight models, I only use them now, they have gotten very good

Fireworks, OpenCode Go, local hardware are my avenues




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