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The Capability Interrogation
Let Claude Do the Janitor Work: 18TB → 7TB
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Let Claude Do the Janitor Work: 18TB → 7TB
The prompt
Before we do anything, I want to understand what you're capable of for this kind of work.
The task is: [BRIEF DESCRIPTION — e.g., deduplicating 18TB of accumulated files going back two decades, including successive backups, moved folders, and versioned codebases].
Don't propose a solution yet. Instead, walk me through:
1. What edge cases would you watch for?
2. What's your default detection method for each edge case, and what are its known failure modes?
3. What would you NOT be able to detect or handle? Be specific about the limits.
4. What's the cheapest way to validate your approach on a small sample before running it on the full dataset?
Once we've talked through capabilities, I'll decide what to actually have you do.Worked example
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