Prompts that actually work

Linus Torvalds shipped kernel patches written with Claude Code, and the thing that made it work was not the model. It was that he picked the bottleneck, scoped the change, ran the benchmarks himself and published the open problems. These six prompts put that discipline into a coding session on code where a mistake is expensive.

ZCode packaged 42,411 files and full Git history into encrypted uploads at startup, and two settings that looked like privacy controls governed something else entirely. Nobody noticed for months. These six prompts walk through auditing whatever tool you currently run, using the machine in front of you rather than trusting a privacy page.