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by _wire_ 220 days ago
"What should we call (adverbial-moniker) when it's (other-adverbial-moniker)?"

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(Mant crawls up building exterior like King Kong as people on street stare in amazement)

- What do you call that thing?!

- Bill.

1 comments

Naming things is hard for a reason. It shapes how we think and communicate. When I'm pointing an LLM at PostgreSQL internals vs. asking it to make a navbar prettier, I'm collaborating in fundamentally different ways. Having distinct terms helps us share ideas and set appropriate expectations.