Lots!
I particularly enjoyed the way you describe the subconscious, martial-arts-like “game” of guiding the model into areas of its latent space you want it to go to with your word selection, metaphors, token-efficient technical terms, and concepts from other domains. Because you know what you want from it, you are in charge, and it follows your guidance, but not directly.
“Tune it by ear like a carburetor” is a wild one, but it resonated - I’ve also used obscure references to get outcomes from models, knowing they will get the connection.
