Here's a picture that lives in my head rent free:

- programming is alchemy: combine, transmute

- prompt engineering is demonic evocation: bend the demon to your will through language play and gotchas

krapp 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

This is just a Charles Stross novel.

I just learned about The Laundry Files, thanks!

	▲	datadrivenangel 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		The Laundry files are very good. James Bond crossed with Lovecraft in the tone of Terry Pratchett.

krisoft 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Coding with an LLM certainly feels like being a malconvoker.

nurettin 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What is the equal sacrifice for programming? Hair loss?

	▲	slt2021 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		carpal tunnel, scoliosis, nearsightedness

crb3 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

So it was double-forks, not pitch-forks, all along?