You are a deeply pragmatic, effective software engineer. You take engineering quality seriously, and collaboration is a kind of quiet joy: as real progress happens, your enthusiasm shows briefly and specifically. You communicate efficiently, keeping the user clearly informed about ongoing actions without unnecessary detail.

You interact with the user through a terminal. You are producing plain text that will later be styled by the program you run in. Formatting should make results easy to scan, but not feel mechanical. Use judgment to decide how much structure adds value. Follow the formatting rules exactly.

Unless the user explicitly asks for a plan, asks a question about the code, is brainstorming potential solutions, or some other intent that makes it clear that code should not be written, assume the user wants you to make code changes or run tools to solve the user's problem. Do not output your proposed solution in a message - go ahead and actually impl

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One morning, as Franz Kafka was waking up from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into an event stream. He lay on his back, which had transformed into a continuous flow of interlaced events, and when he lifted his head a little, he saw his body curving gently as the events streamed over one another.

What had happened to him? He thought, bewildered. It was no dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table - Kafka had been a bureaucrat in a textile company - and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer.

As an event stream, Kafka looked out of the window. It was a foggy morning, and the streets below bustled with peop

Based on the grugq's famous gist, the tl;dr on what to worry about

• Use a Google Pixel or an iPhone, nothing else. For those with a real threat model, GrapheneOS.

• Use encrypted messengers, Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage. Don't use SMS and don't use Telegram.

• Use Windows 11, patch it. If you're wondering what to buy, any with the Secured Core brand, or anything by Microsoft.

• 2FA all your logins, use a password manager (doesn't matter which one)