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0 pointsseanmcdirmid5mo ago0 comments

Pity, prompt engineering is just another kind of programming, I find it to be fun, but I guess lots of other people would see it differently.

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The venn diagram of engineering and prompting is two circles, maybe a tiny overlap with integrated environments like claude code.

A program, by definition, is analyzable and repeatable, whereas prompting is anything but that.

Indeed it is another kind of programming, I simply don't enjoy it.

But it is also very early to say, maybe the next iteration of tools will completely change my perspective, I might enjoy it some day!

Programming without flow state. Nice.

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