alt Hacker NewsThe venn diagram of engineering and prompting is two circles, maybe a tiny overlap with integrated environments like claude code.
A program, by definition, is analyzable and repeatable, whereas prompting is anything but that.
The venn diagram of engineering and prompting is two circles, maybe a tiny overlap with integrated environments like claude code.
A program, by definition, is analyzable and repeatable, whereas prompting is anything but that.
As long as your program is large and multi-threaded (most programs that matter commercially), it is not very analyzable or repeatable. You replace those qualities with QA and tests, the same is true with prompting.