Most prompt engineering advice was written for chatbots and is actively wrong for coding agents. "Act as a senior developer" does nothing when the model already has your repository open, can run your test suite, and will read forty files if you let it. Claude Code doesn't need a persona. It needs to know which files matter, what it is not allowed to change, what shape the answer should take, and how it will know it succeeded. That is the whole craft, and it is learnable in an
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