Re:Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial
by empath75 on Sunday October 12, 2025 @10:00AM
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Assume for the sake of argument, that this is literally sorcery -- ie communing with spirits through prayer.
_Even in that case_, if you can design prayers that get relatively predictable results from gods and incorporate that into automated systems, that is still engineering. Trying to tame chaotic and unpredictable systems is a big part of what engineering is. Even designing systems where _humans_ do all the work -- just as messy a task as dealing with LLMs, if not more -- is a kind of engineering.
> rules learned over many years
How do you think they learned those rules? People were doing engineering for centuries before science even existed as a discipline. They built steam engines first and _then_ discovered the laws of thermodynamics.
_Even in that case_, if you can design prayers that get relatively predictable results from gods and incorporate that into automated systems, that is still engineering. Trying to tame chaotic and unpredictable systems is a big part of what engineering is. Even designing systems where _humans_ do all the work -- just as messy a task as dealing with LLMs, if not more -- is a kind of engineering.
> rules learned over many years
How do you think they learned those rules? People were doing engineering for centuries before science even existed as a discipline. They built steam engines first and _then_ discovered the laws of thermodynamics.