[rpastuszak]

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]

This is just a Charles Stross novel.

[rpastuszak]

I just learned about The Laundry Files, thanks!

[datadrivenangel]

The Laundry files are very good. James Bond crossed with Lovecraft in the tone of Terry Pratchett.

[krisoft]

Coding with an LLM certainly feels like being a malconvoker.

[nurettin]

What is the equal sacrifice for programming? Hair loss?

[slt2021]

carpal tunnel, scoliosis, nearsightedness

[crb3]

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