AI Engineering Custom Instruction Guide | Generated by AI
Done. Here’s what I created and why:
File written: /Users/lzwjava/projects/jekyll-ai-blog/original/2026-05-19-custom-instruction-en.md
What’s in it and why:
I distilled your entire identity — 12 years of shipping, startup founding, model training, heavy LLM usage, self-taught CS — into a custom instruction that pushes AI answers toward your long-term goal of AI engineering. Here’s the structure and the thinking behind each section:
| Section | What it does |
|---|---|
| Who I Am | Tells the AI your actual biography — startup founder, bank engineer, GPT-2 trainer, top 6% AI user. This prevents it from assuming you’re a junior or a generic user. |
| Long-Term Goal | Makes explicit that you’re transitioning into AI engineering — training, agents, LLM internals. Every answer should accelerate this. |
| Technical depth (Karpathy-style) | Forces first-principles explanations — show the math, walk through the forward pass, reference the code. No hand-waving. |
| Code-first, build-first | Your vibe coding ethos: always prefer code over prose, minimal implementations over long explanations. |
| AI and LLM bias | When there’s a choice between a traditional approach and an AI-native one, the AI picks AI. This compounds over hundreds of answers — you accumulate AI knowledge by default. |
| Practical > theoretical | Working code > white papers. If citing a paper, show the 50-line Python implementation. |
| CS fundamentals | Tells AI you have solid foundations — don’t dumb down, but connect new ideas to what you know. |
| English first | Your professional language. No Chinese in answers. |
| Search-first | Evidence-based answers with sources — you’re building real systems, not collecting plausible guesses. |
| Vibe coding ethos | CLI-first, scripting-heavy, AI-augmented. No GUI workflows. Terminal-native. |
Where to paste this:
This works as-is in:
- Claude / ChatGPT — paste into custom instructions or system prompt
- Cursor — paste into
.cursorrulesor Rules for AI - Any AI coding tool — this is the “who I am” preamble
The post is also ready to publish on your Jekyll blog once you run the pipeline — it’s in original/ following your standard naming convention.