Comment by verdverm 6 months ago At the same time, prompt/context engineering makes them better, so it matters more than zero 3 comments verdverm Reply AstralStorm 6 months ago Much like removing gotos automatically makes your code 1% better.And then someone invented exceptions for the same reason we needed these. More semantics, people still cannot use them.The semantics being opaque and the thing doing much more than you expected too. And exceptions are trivially simple in comparison! saturn_vk 6 months ago Imho calling this engineering would be an insult to advertise engineers. verdverm 6 months ago arguably it's closer to teaching / management / writing good work tickets (but overly detailed and implementation specific)because it's for a machine, engineering seems fine to meI've found myself slowing down on jumping into code (with the ai or not) to spend more time writing instructions & prompts. Makes a big difference
AstralStorm 6 months ago Much like removing gotos automatically makes your code 1% better.And then someone invented exceptions for the same reason we needed these. More semantics, people still cannot use them.The semantics being opaque and the thing doing much more than you expected too. And exceptions are trivially simple in comparison!
saturn_vk 6 months ago Imho calling this engineering would be an insult to advertise engineers. verdverm 6 months ago arguably it's closer to teaching / management / writing good work tickets (but overly detailed and implementation specific)because it's for a machine, engineering seems fine to meI've found myself slowing down on jumping into code (with the ai or not) to spend more time writing instructions & prompts. Makes a big difference
verdverm 6 months ago arguably it's closer to teaching / management / writing good work tickets (but overly detailed and implementation specific)because it's for a machine, engineering seems fine to meI've found myself slowing down on jumping into code (with the ai or not) to spend more time writing instructions & prompts. Makes a big difference
Much like removing gotos automatically makes your code 1% better.
And then someone invented exceptions for the same reason we needed these. More semantics, people still cannot use them.
The semantics being opaque and the thing doing much more than you expected too. And exceptions are trivially simple in comparison!
Imho calling this engineering would be an insult to advertise engineers.
arguably it's closer to teaching / management / writing good work tickets (but overly detailed and implementation specific)
because it's for a machine, engineering seems fine to me
I've found myself slowing down on jumping into code (with the ai or not) to spend more time writing instructions & prompts. Makes a big difference