alt Hacker NewsYes. Prompt engineering is like a shittier verson of writing a VBA app inside Excel or Access.
Bloat has a new name and its AI integration. You thought Chrome using GB per tab was bad, wait until you need a whole datacenter to use your coding environment.
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simonw • last Saturday at 1:21 AM
The difference between prompting a coding agent and VBA is that with VBA you have to write and test and iterate on the code yourself.
> Prompt engineering is like a shittier verson of writing a VBA app inside Excel or Access.
Sure, if you could use VBA to read a patient's current complaint, vitals, and medical history, look up all the relevant research on Google Scholar, and then output a recommended course of treatment.