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Prompting Is Programming

Hacker News | Nov 3, 2026 | aaronbrethorst

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Engineers are good at it because they’ve spent years doing it, and most other people haven’t done it at all. My friend could run circles around most engineers I know intellectually. An engineer’s instinct is to distrust output that looks about right.

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