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Anthropic
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Anthropic deleted 80% of Claude Code's system prompt and nothing broke. All 6 new rules of context engineering in plain English, the prompt that audits your repo for you, and the one asset that survives the next model release.
In 2002 a memo forced Amazon to become legible to itself. The same memo is being written again — this time for LLM gateways.
Your org chart is dissolving. Here is the tactical field guide.
Four teams shipped the same agent architecture. Nobody coordinated. And agents that can self-improve are the next frontier.
your AI budget playbook: compounding or burning?
“Robert’s newsletter gave me things to look into that I normally don’t think about… The things I didn’t know, I didn’t know.”
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Robert Ta · CEO & Co-Founder of Clarity by Epistemic Me Inc. — AI personalization infrastructure that models user beliefs, not just clicks. Previously Chief Product Architect at Dayforce ($1.8B) with patented analytics work at Workday through $2B→$4B+. Bootstrapped to $800k+ booked revenue in year one with AI native services reinvesting margin into Clarity, our central venture scale investment thesis.
Rock climber · ultrarunner · dog dad.