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Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt

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Simon Willison shares a prompt from David Crawshaw making the case for open-source developer tools. Crawshaw's example: set up a nightly cron job that fetches upstream changes, rebases your local modifications on top of them, tests the software to confirm it works, and then replaces your current version with the updated code.

Source: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/3/david-crawshaw/#atom...

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