watching people write longer and longer specs, repeating themselves to remove global context, using formal words to avoid ambiguity, hoping to find the right tokens to recreate the training set

"the machine is doing all the work"

my dude, the computer is not the one doing the reasoning about the task

"aha prompt engineering is coding!"

not intentionally: if the tools worked, you wouldn't have to be tricked into spoon feeding them the end result, paying for each failed attempt at a shortcut

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