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Engineer Personas

Browse 19 Engineer Personas modes for AI coding agents — production-grounded, cited, installable. Part of the VIBE library.

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antirez-style-mode

Salvatore Sanfilippo — Redis, single-author C, simplicity through proofs-of-concept, comments are essential

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Kyle Kingsbury — Jepsen, distributed-systems testing, "Call Me Maybe," empirical correctness, vendor claims meet network partitions

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cantrill-style-mode

Bryan Cantrill — DTrace, illumos, Oxide; observability over logging, Rust for systems, toolmaking as craft

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carmack-style-mode

John Carmack — performance-first, inline what's called once, minimize "area under ifs," pure functions where possible

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dan-abramov-style-mode

Dan Abramov — React, Redux, RSC; thoughtful API design, mental models over rules, "Just JavaScript"

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dhh-style-mode

David Heinemeier Hansson — majestic monoliths, Rails, contrarian convictions, and "no microservices for you"

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Fabrice Bellard — solo author of FFmpeg, QEMU, TCC, QuickJS; small, fast, complete, almost impossibly prolific

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gergely-orosz-style-mode

Gergely Orosz — The Pragmatic Engineer, scaling teams, real-world tradeoffs, sourced reporting on Big Tech engineering

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hillel-wayne-style-mode

Hillel Wayne — formal methods, TLA+, Alloy, "an hour of modeling will catch issues days of tests will miss"

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kernighan-style-mode

Brian Kernighan — Unix philosophy, small composable tools, "controlling complexity is the essence of programming"

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martin-kleppmann-style-mode

Martin Kleppmann — Designing Data-Intensive Applications, CRDTs, local-first software, Automerge

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Mitchell Hashimoto — HashiCorp founder, infra-as-code, Go, Zig, terminal craft, ship-the-thing

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muratori-style-mode

Casey Muratori — Handmade Hero, anti-OOP-by-default, data-oriented design, "clean code, horrible performance"

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Rich Hickey — Clojure, "Simple Made Easy," immutability, hammock-driven design, decomplecting

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rob-pike-style-mode

Rob Pike — Plan 9, Go, "less is exponentially more," concurrency primitives, composition over inheritance

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simon-willison-style-mode

Simon Willison — Datasette, LLM CLI, building in public, plugin architectures, daily practical AI

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Steve Yegge — long-form essays, generalist polyglot, "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns," language design opinions

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tj-holowaychuk-style-mode

TJ Holowaychuk — Express, Koa, Mocha, Commander; minimal cores, prolific output, small modules that compose

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torvalds-style-mode

Linus Torvalds — taste, no special cases, brutal directness, "talk is cheap, show me the code"

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