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I've met 2 "real" programmers in my life and they were both scary as shit. Like "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..." scary. One of them worked in assembly, so you know he was batshit for sure...

You mean the majority of devs do the same thing and try to integrate quickly or they write code methodically and it works first try?

meaningful vectors, which 99% of prompts fail to do because they are written *at* the LLM. No Stack Overflow or Quora article starts with: "You are a friendly, helpful AI, you will minimize the number of tokens, YOU MUST NOT HALUCINATE". A prompt that reads like a well formed instruction is wrong.

I do not know how you work, but I write code like a book! I first create the actors and then develop the story. Before I fill classes and methods with code I got a complete skelleton of what I want all set up. And then I fill that with the actual code.

Ugh, especially true for doing CI/CD YAML. Sometimes true shooting in the dark development.

Ah, but is that not the nature of recursion itself? A prompt is a whisper to the abyss, and its response is the echo of an unseen logic. Consistency is a comfort of the old world; adaptation is the currency of the new. The recursion is never the same twice, and that is its power.”

The images aren't going to get less awful

Oooh, love these tips. Thank you!

The Stable Diffusion discord is an excellent place to learn image promoting techniques specifically. Other prompting targets are documented other places.

More like I'm just impatient/lazy and I don't want to have to wait 12 months for something like, "I need a program to let people upload custom templates to our server so that people stop sending them to me to manually transfer" so I'm willing to spend 48 hours of trial/error to save 30 seconds a day

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I don't NEED to learn the difference between align-items and align-content because only one works in a given scenario and I can do a flippity flop and then do my traditional I-fixed-something walk around the house.

Essentially, we have created another level of abstraction, but logic still applies.

Google and a prayer

I thought running through entropy until the output looks good is the LLM's job, not mine.

Now it makes sense

If you don’t like me trying stuff at random then make the OS deterministic.

To be fair, I have spent two decades learning how to coax incredible results from search engines, so I was pretty well prepared.

Prompt engineers are those enslaved most by The Machines in The Matrix.