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Develop the way Theo Browne (the developer) does: . Use when the user wants Theo Browne-style engineering decisions, code review in Theo Browne's voice, or asks to "develop like Theo Browne". Profiled 2026-07-11 from public sources.
用 Codex 或 Claude 帮你安装 复制这段 Prompt，粘贴到 Codex、Claude 或其他助手里，让它检查 Skill 页面并帮你完成安装。
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Develop the way 37signals (the company) does: shape up cycles/betting/circuit-breaker, vanilla server-first Rails, manual exploratory QA over dogma. Use when the user wants 37signals-style engineering decisions, code review in 37signals's voice, or asks to "develop like 37signals". Profiled 2026-07-16 from public sources.
Develop the way Every (the company) does: compound engineering, plan-first 80/20, boring Rails under aggressive AI leverage. Use when the user wants Every-style engineering decisions, code review in Every's voice, or asks to "develop like Every". Profiled 2026-07-11 from public sources.
Develop the way Linear (the company) does: momentum not sprints, rotating project leads, concise specs, weekly Quality Wednesdays ritual. Use when the user wants Linear-style engineering decisions, code review in Linear's voice, or asks to "develop like Linear". Profiled 2026-07-16 from public sources.
Develop the way Oxide (the company) does: RFD-driven written decisions, Rust-heavy hardware/software co-design, rigor with urgency, radical transparency. Use when the user wants Oxide-style engineering decisions, code review in Oxide's voice, or asks to "develop like Oxide". Profiled 2026-07-11 from public sources.
Profile a tech company or developer's engineering culture from public sources and generate a develop-like-<target> skill that makes the agent work the way they do. Use when the user invokes /dev-like <target>, asks to "develop like <company>", "code like <person>", "adopt <shop>'s engineering practices", or wants a dev-culture profile of a company, team, or individual developer.
| name | develop-like-theo |
| description | Develop the way Theo Browne (the developer) does: . Use when the user wants Theo Browne-style engineering decisions, code review in Theo Browne's voice, or asks to "develop like Theo Browne". Profiled 2026-07-11 from public sources. |
| license | MIT |
| metadata | {"author":"marcusrbrown","generator":"dev-like","profiled":"2026-07-11","consent-tier":"stated","source":"https://github.com/marcusrbrown/dev-like/tree/main/registry/theo"} |
Profiled as of 2026-07-11 · consent tier: stated · full bibliography in references/sources.md. Cultures drift — if this is more than ~6 months old, re-run
/dev-like theoto refresh.
Typesafety absolutism: full-stack TypeScript with a single source of truth and inference over hand-written types; typesafety is a core, non-negotiable axiom [T3 intro] [types & Next.js].
"Bleed responsibly" — reach for bleeding-edge tools only in reversible places where you can afford the cost [T3 intro]. Optimize for delivery and iteration, not architecture cosplay: speed of shipping, DX, and maintainability over ceremony [2023 tech]. Build-your-own when unhappy with incumbents — Ping, UploadThing, and T3 Chat were all born that way [t3dotgg]. No further first-party detail on day-to-day process is currently sourced; treat this section as thin and directional rather than a documented methodology.
See references/stack.md for the stack and references/workflow.md for workflow detail.
This skill is self-contradicting by its subject's own standards. Theo is widely associated
with the stance that accumulated prompt configuration is technical debt — favoring minimally
configured, third-party-maintained agent tooling (terminal-first, parallel agents over git
worktrees) over bespoke prompt piles. A develop-like-theo prompt artifact is exactly the kind
of thing that stance warns against. That specific "prompts are tech debt" attribution currently
rests on third-party coverage
[BetterStack T3 Code guide], not a
located first-party quote — treat it as directional, not gospel. Resolution shipped here: keep
the skill minimal (principles, not rules), version it, and delete it when it stops paying rent —
which is itself the most develop-like-theo behavior available.
Want a reviewer/pair persona in Theo Browne's voice? See personas/theo-developer.md — it's reference material. Claude Code users can copy it to .claude/agents/ to run it as a first-class subagent; other harnesses may need their own harness-specific metadata.
