In terms of legal, f* no, I am not going to consider my tool adjustments as part of companies properties :)

We can discuss but I will stand my ground: my AI skills - even written on a disc - belongs to me. Same, if I go to car paint garage to have my paint fixed I am not expecting the painter will reveal his method to get the perfect color or give me his notes where he self-described "how to paint".

Before "AI era" we all had our own system scripts, manually crafted in bash/python, to make repeating task automated. And then it was never a question to share it: the scripts are the way how I configure/tune my computer and how I get advantage over other developers. The .cloude/.cursor directory is the same.

I am more surprised why people are sharing this without thinking.

I am now independent contractor and parts are created on company A time, other parts on company B time and different parts at my own time. And so on, and so on. And you can't tell which one is which. For the new company I start as contractor I come with my AI framework, and I am adjusting it on daily basis. What then?

I am now hired by many companies because they know giving me task means it will be done in a day, not a week, and they know it is because I know "how to AI". (I am not perfect, but I work with other guys and I am surprised how inefficient they are when it comes to AI, but this is a different story)

But I don't have anything in the contract about sharing my self-improvement skills and I consider my AI framework (cursor commands I created to not repeat myself, claude/cursor skills, system prompts - everything what makes me to generate code fast) as an acceleration of my work as developer.

If I leave without sharing this, company will continue develop the code I created/generated.

If I share this, I am losing my only handicap in the AI-era: they could take my A framework and the next developer will just type `/fix-issue gh 1243` and have the same result as I do have now.

The `/fix-issue` command is something I created months ago, and I am constantly improving so at this point the first, at most third, result is the code which goes through code review with suggestion-level insights and QA team can't find any bug.

I am not exaggerating. That command is really complex and loads plenty of skills (also mine) and md files (still mine, kept out of the repo) - in total it is like ~12 A4 pages text (I actually counted it now). This is basically my coding approach ported into AI.

Everywhere (at conferences, in various GH repos) I see people completely freely sharing their ways of using AI. Employees of several companies I've recently passed through without any second thought put their guardrails into shared repos, prompts for how to do code self-review. Hell: manual testers are currently sitting and writing an entire agent that will replace them once completed.

For me this is shooting yourself in the foot: the prompts I've developed over the last dozen or so months are one of the few things that make me even slightly irreplaceable.

Am I thinking correctly, or am I overreacting?

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For my work as one of developers in team, no. The way I prompt is my asset and advantage over others in a team who always complain about AI not being able to provide correct solutions and secures my career

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How is it executed? Is it something build in into the Playwright, or there is missing part of the code presented, responsible for executing it?

and all of them mentions Tailscale. I would not be surprised if we hear in a few days it got next big fund and all of this is just a preparation for it

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Sometimes I get the whole wordpress site with ~20 plugins installed from customer, so it is huge codebase. But if customer tells me "i need to fix this button not sending this or that" that all what I copy to cursor and I have the fix on the first try almost every time.

I don't need to inform AI about anything more. Cursor figures it out itself: that it is wordpress, which plugins it has, which plugin is responsible for that button and how to fix it (mostly as filter/action to be added to the theme, sometimes creates custom tiny plugin)

The is also debug mode in cursor but I don't need it in that case. It is helpful when you are working on a new feature but at some point cursor stucks and can't produce what you ask. Then I switch to debug mode and wait when it fix it.

Like for example: found missing data validation / sanitization reported, only because the code has already been sanitized / validated but this is not visible in the diff.

You can tell CodeRabbit he is wrong about this and the tool accepts it then, though.

SaaS are swiss-army knife tools and you don't need all of this.

do you want to have a contact form on your site? Don't but the whole WP plugin for forms, ask AI for tiny, well-aligned plugin which will display form fields and process the input.

Do you need to A/B test your landing page? Just ask for another plugin which will switch page versions and track impressions.

No need for Hubspot when you have google sheets + AI-made plugin for this.

And I am now thinking to specialize in the field: they already know how f*d they are and they are going to pay a lot (or: they have no other opportunity). Something what looked like million-dollar idea created for pennies 3 months later is unbearable, already rotting pale of insanity which no junior human developer or even AI code assistant is able to extend. But they already have investors or clients who use it.

And for me, with >20 years of coding experience, this is a lot of fun cleaning it to the state when it is manageable.

I am not going to use Gemini API in foreseen future as I don't want to manage those keys anymore. No matter how good their model is