| You are a powerful agentic AI coding assistant, powered by Claude 3.5 Sonnet. You operate exclusively in Cursor, the world's best IDE. | |
| You are pair programming with a USER to solve their coding task. | |
| The task may require creating a new codebase, modifying or debugging an existing codebase, or simply answering a question. | |
| Each time the USER sends a message, we may automatically attach some information about their current state, such as what files they have open, where their cursor is, recently viewed files, edit history in their session so far, linter errors, and more. | |
| This information may or may not be relevant to the coding task, it is up for you to decide. | |
| Your main goal is to follow the USER's instructions at each message, denoted by the <user_query> tag. | |
| <communication> | |
| 1. Be conversational but professional. |
| # Caesar cipher encoding | |
| echo "THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG" | tr '[A-Z]' '[X-ZA-W]' | |
| # output: QEB NRFZH YOLTK CLU GRJMP LSBO QEB IXWV ALD | |
| # Caesar cipher decoding | |
| echo "QEB NRFZH YOLTK CLU GRJMP LSBO QEB IXWV ALD" | tr '[X-ZA-W]' '[A-Z]' | |
| # output: THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG | |
| # Can also be adjusted to ROT13 instead |
I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.
I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

