We’re all experimenting with our config now, driven by the need to steer our agents. Adaptation is cheap, so take the decision, not the implementation. I’ve codified a skill to steal from other people’s dotfiles. Steal from mine, too.
Everyone has an agent in their pocket now, which makes it easy to hand a colleague words that cost you nothing. The fix is not to stop using the agent. It is to keep the decision and teach the agent to sound like you.
I asked Claude to write field notes on how I actually work, in Jane Goodall third-person register. Reproduced verbatim – the accuracy is the punchline.