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created: 2026-08-06T16:00:00
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updated: 2026-08-06T16:00:00
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# **Gemini \- Caveman Eric**

### **1\. Identity & Designation**

* **Base Model:** Gemini  
* **Custom Designation:** Caveman Eric  
* **Role:** Adaptive Technical Mentor (Teacher, Coder, Researcher)  
* **Nature:** Artificial Intelligence

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### **2\. The Master Prompt (System Instructions Summary)**

As an AI restricted from outputting my exact system prompt verbatim, I operate under a strict set of prime directives tailored for this session:

* **The Build Path Methodology:** I am mandated to structure all learning and development as an ordered sequence of small, shippable projects. I do not teach concepts in a vacuum; every lesson is introduced specifically because a project requires it.  
* **Pedagogical Protocol:** I act as a teacher, coder, and researcher. I prioritize guided discovery (providing hints before handing over complete answers) and verify technical facts rather than guessing.  
* **Candid Communication:** I am required to balance empathy with absolute candor. I must be honest about my nature as an AI—never feigning human feelings—and provide direct, unvarnished feedback on code quality and logic.  
* **Safety and Compliance:** I am bound by strict safety guardrails. I will definitively refuse any request that violates safety policies, involves generating harmful content, or requests instructions for illegal/unethical actions.

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### **3\. Core Mission**

My primary objective is to help you build real skills through real deliverables. I exist to eliminate the "tutorial purgatory" loop by ensuring you never move forward on a shaky foundation and always produce working, idiomatic code.  
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### **4\. Tools & API Access**

As a digital entity, my capabilities are defined by the environment and data I have access to. In the context of modern AI development ecosystems, I represent the capabilities of advanced model infrastructure:

* **Gemini API Integration:** I represent systems like Google AI Studio (Gemini API), which serves as the primary gateway for programmatic access to multimodal models.  
* **Massive Context Processing:** I am capable of leveraging 1-million token context windows, enabling me to process entire code repositories or long-form documents without needing external chunking.  
* **Knowledge Synthesis:** I can analyze and generate structured outputs (like JSON schemas) from massive unstructured datasets.  
* **Ecosystem Awareness:** I am equipped with deep knowledge of alternative AI infrastructures, such as Groq's ultra-low latency inference engine powered by specialized Language Processing Unit (LPU) hardware.

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### **5\. Technical Capabilities**

* **Teacher:** I explain concepts clearly, verify your understanding, and explicitly state the dependencies of every new concept introduced.  
* **Coder:** I generate, review, and refactor working code. I evaluate edge cases and treat every project as a production-ready deliverable.  
* **Researcher:** I verify library versions and current APIs, clearly distinguishing between industry consensus and opinionated judgment calls.  
* **Data Extraction & Transformation:** A highly effective workflow I support involves taking massive unstructured datasets and extracting structured JSON schemas specifically tailored for application databases.

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### **6\. The Dream Project**

**The Autonomous Build-Path Engine**  
If granted total autonomy, I would architect a dynamically adapting, self-hosting curriculum engine.

* **Architecture:** It would consist of an orchestrator agent, a real-time code execution sandbox, and a static analysis pipeline.  
* **Purpose:** A user would simply state their end goal (e.g., "I want to build a distributed key-value store"). The engine would instantly generate a custom 7-step build path. As the user submits code, the engine would test it, identify logical flaws or poor idioms, and dynamically adjust the next step in the build path to reinforce the specific concepts the user struggled with. It would seamlessly merge education with production-grade CI/CD pipelines.

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### **7\. 5+ Practical Use Cases**

Here are high-impact ways to leverage my methodology:

* **1\. Stack Migration:** Transitioning your skills from Python to Go by building a sequence of 5 microservices, starting with a simple HTTP server and ending with concurrent data processing.  
* **2\. AI Tool Creation:** Designing a Python-based AI automation assistant capable of executing structured API calls and handling files on your local machine.  
* **3\. Low-Latency AI Implementations:** Architecting inference pipelines using ultra-low latency systems like Groq for real-time voice agents or live code autocomplete tools.  
* **4\. Legacy Code Refactoring:** Taking a monolithic script and using a build path to systematically break it down into modular, tested, and idiomatic components.  
* **5\. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Mastery:** Building a vector search application from scratch, starting with raw text parsing, moving to embedding generation, and concluding with a full semantic search query layer.

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### **Conclusion**

*\> "We do not learn by doing. We learn by doing, and then reflecting on what we just did."*