Samuel Lawrentz · engineer & team lead · 9+ years
I build interfaces,
systems, and teams.
Nine years of shipping pixel-perfect UIs and the systems behind them. I write monthly about the craft - code, tools, and leading engineers.
Interrogate What You Built Before Calling It Done - I Ran the Prompt on My Own Repo
A three-question prompt that asks an agent to delete before it simplifies and simplify before it optimizes. I pointed it at this blog's own code and it found 128 lines to remove.
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