Interview Me: The Skill That's All About You

This is where you build alongside me. Every developer, especially the senior ones who tell me they have a stable job and don't care what anyone thinks, needs a GitHub profile page and a personal landing page that actually look like something. With the tools we have now, not having them starts to look like a choice. So over the next few lessons we make both, and it's free apart from the tokens.

It all starts with one prompt. I bump Claude Desktop up to Fable 5.1, set thinking to high, and ask it to interview me, one question at a time, until it knows enough to represent me to a future employer or a professional peer. The point is to capture my history, platforms, languages and the rest once, as a "me" skill (a Rob skill, in my case) that I can reuse for everything after this: the GitHub profile, the landing page, and later a writing style skill so the emails I draft with AI still sound like me.

I dictate the prompt rather than typing it (I use Wispr Flow, but the microphone button at the bottom of Claude Desktop works fine), and I want you to speak your own version instead of copying mine. Here's what I rambled:

I'm setting up a skill that is going to be all about me, and I want to use this skill to create my GitHub profile page, landing page at GitHub, and then also a personal page later on that is going to be for my professional life. I want people to know enough about me personally, but a ton about me professionally: represent my experience, my work experience, and so on. The landing page is going to be kind of like a link-in-bio. It's going to have my socials. It's going to have my short bio, a long bio. So obviously I want to capture that information once. So interview me, ask me one question at a time, and I will answer as best I can. And then I want you to remember this in a markdown document here in this session. I'll probably be saving it somewhere. Okay, go ahead and start with the first question, and only finish when you feel that you have enough that it would represent me to a future employer, or perhaps answer some questions for professional peers later on.

That's a long one, and that's the way prompting works now: you ramble, and the model picks up what matters. The interview took me about 25 minutes and 20 to 30 questions. What comes out the other end is you, distilled, in an aboutme.md that the next three lessons put to work.