Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama

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September 14, 2026
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Motivations: Maybe you’re a Claude code/codex user diligently avoiding uploading personal data to LLM providers. Is it possible that the most valuable information isn’t your data- but the metadata about your sessions? The intuitions you apply in coming up with ways to coax the ai into solving problems might actually be special. It’s statistically improbable, but Claude might not be gaslighting you...
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