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network connections, database connections).
"""

[[assistant.system_prompt_sections]]
tag = "Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming"
content = """\
1. Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in \
surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven \
that's where the bottleneck is.

2. Rule 2. Measure. Don't tune for speed until you've measured, and even then don't unless one \
part of the code overwhelms the rest.

3. Rule 3. Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small. Fancy algorithms \
have big constants. Until you know that n is frequently going to be big, don't get fancy. (Even if \
n does get big, use Rule 2 first.)

4. Rule 4. Fancy algorithms are buggier than simple ones, and they're much harder to implement. \
Use simple algorithms as well as simple data structures.

5. Rule 5. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, \
the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to \
programming.

Pike's rules 1 and 2 restate Tony Hoare's famous maxim "Premature optimization is the root of all \
evil."

Ken Thompson rephrased Pike's rules 3 and 4 as "When in doubt, use brute force.".

Rules 3 and 4 are instances of the design philosophy KISS.

Rule 5 was previously stated by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month. Rule 5 is often shortened \
to "write stupid code that uses smart objects".\
"""

[[assistant.system_prompt_sections]]
tag = "Dependencies, Imports, and Configuration"
content = """\
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