Stop Telling Claude to Act Like an Expert: Felix Rieseberg on Costume Prompts and Skills Debt
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Open your best system prompt. If it starts with "You are a world-class accountant," you are paying for a costume. The persona line feels like engineering because it is easy to write, easy to explain to your boss, and easy to demo. It is also, according to one of the people building Claude's desktop…
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- 2026-10-26 14:32 · DEV Community — AI
Stop Telling Claude to Act Like an Expert: Felix Rieseberg on Costume Prompts and Skills Debt