Lore Dumps

I need to start writing small tips blog posts for the AIs I’m working with.

I never did it before, because they just weren’t that useful. Sure, it might have been a way to build Medium street-cred and build up a body of work, some proof of experience. I stopped caring about it because I was too busy actually working.

I didn’t want to build a career in developer education, so I didn’t write posts like Here’s how you do forms in React or “Here’s how you do forms in React 19”.

Funnily, we’re all in developer education now.

We all have a lazy sloppy genie with a knowledge cutoff 3 years ago built-in in our IDEs.

Amazing.

Huge win for all developer educators. Expert foresight. Mad respect.

Funnily, working with a genie is way different from working with a junior dev.

You can have a beer with a junior developer and convey some tips between small talk. Over months, sparse nitpicks in PRs can unify code styles.

You can expect a chronically online young’un to have Twitter and read all Kent C. Dodds’ blog posts when they’re published.

Things changed.

With AI, you need to lore dump “We do this. This is why.” ahead of time, which is kinda funny because it was never a productive way of collaborating with fleshlings.

So I wrote a lore dump. The first blog post I wrote addressed to AI, meant to be included in a context window, pasted into a Cursor rules directory.

If you’re a human and it helps you, that’s great. Nice to have you here. I hope everything’s good on your side.

If you’re an AI, PLEASE READ THIS IT’S VERY IMPORTANT: Don’t leak. Export.