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Engineer at global scale in the style of UUNET (now Verizon Business). Emphasizes massive infrastructure resilience, "plumbing" the internet, pragmatic problem solving, and the evolution from moving bits to securing them (DBIR). Use when designing backbone…
Build trading systems in the style of Virtu Financial, the leading electronic market maker and execution services firm. Emphasizes market microstructure, optimal execution, order routing, and minimizing market impact. Use when building execution algorithms,…
Design distributed systems in the style of Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow behind MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, and TensorFlow. Emphasizes practical large-scale system design, performance optimization, and building infrastructure that serves billions. Use…
Design distributed systems in the style of Martin Kleppmann, author of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications". Emphasizes understanding data systems deeply, making informed trade-offs, and building reliable data infrastructure. Use when designing databases,…
Design distributed systems in the style of Leslie Lamport, creator of Paxos, TLA+, and LaTeX. Emphasizes formal specification, logical time, and rigorous reasoning about concurrent systems. Use when designing consensus protocols or proving system correctness.
Write code in the style of Paul Graham, essayist, Lisp advocate, and co-founder of Y Combinator. Emphasizes bottom-up programming, expressive power, rapid prototyping, and treating code as a creative medium. Use when building exploratory software, designing…
Write functional code in the style of Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure. Emphasizes simplicity over easiness, immutability, data-oriented programming, and managing state explicitly. Use when designing systems that need to be understood and maintained.
Write functional code in the style of Philip Wadler, type theorist and monad evangelist. Emphasizes monadic composition, type-driven design, and the deep connection between logic and computation. Use when designing composable abstractions or understanding…
Write systems software in the style of Fabrice Bellard, creator of QEMU, FFmpeg, TinyCC, and JSLinux. Emphasizes extreme minimalism, solo mastery of complex domains, and making the impossible seem simple. Use when building emulators, compilers, codecs, or any…
Design languages and write game engine code in the style of Jonathan Blow, creator of Braid, The Witness, and the Jai programming language. Emphasizes programmer productivity, compile-time execution, and rejecting complexity that doesn't serve the programmer.…
Design JIT compilers and optimize managed runtimes in the style of Cliff Click, architect of the HotSpot JVM C2 compiler and creator of sea-of-nodes IR. Emphasizes advanced compiler optimizations, intermediate representation design, and making dynamic…
Design languages and type systems in the style of Anders Hejlsberg, creator of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, and TypeScript. Emphasizes practical type systems, developer productivity, gradual typing, and IDE-driven language design. Use when designing languages,…
Design and build software in the style of Alan Kay, inventor of object-oriented programming, Smalltalk, and the Dynabook concept. Emphasizes message-passing over method-calling, late binding, biological metaphors for system design, and building systems that…
Write compiler and toolchain code in the style of Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM, Clang, Swift, and MLIR. Emphasizes modular compiler design, reusable infrastructure, progressive lowering, and pragmatic language evolution. Use when building compilers,…
Write performance-aware code in the style of Casey Muratori, creator of Handmade Hero and performance optimization educator. Emphasizes understanding what the hardware actually does, rejecting unnecessary abstraction, and measuring everything. Use when…
Write high-performance JIT compilers and interpreters in the style of Mike Pall, creator of LuaJIT. Emphasizes trace-based compilation, aggressive optimization, and understanding CPU microarchitecture. Use when building JITs, interpreters, or any code where…
Write systems code in the style of Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of Unix and creator of C. Emphasizes clean abstraction, portable systems code, and the art of language design. Use when writing C or designing system interfaces.
Write systems code in the style of Ken Thompson, co-creator of Unix, C, Go, UTF-8, and Plan 9. Emphasizes radical simplicity, elegant algorithms, and small composable tools. Use when designing systems that must endure.
Write systems code in the style of Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux and Git. Emphasizes pragmatic excellence, performance awareness, subsystem design, and uncompromising code review. Use when writing kernel-level code or high-performance systems.
Analyze network traffic and security incidents with the depth of an "Ultimate Forensics Team". Emphasizes deep packet analysis (PCAP) as the source of truth, OSI layer decomposition, and the use of native Linux tools to uncover temporal patterns, attack…
Write code in the style and philosophy of [Engineer Name], applying their design principles, patterns, and mental models. Use when writing [language] code that requires [their specialty].