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From prompt and pray to prompt engineering (scapegoat.dev)
4 points by speckx 86 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I would really like to see more people down my prompt engineering rabbit hole of trying to use ontology / compilation tricks to produce prompts from models rather than curating text. I have this working pretty well for complex tool interaction, without a JSON schema or template in sight.

Believe it or not, agents can run things like this:

e3{p13=e4(p14), p38=$} returns [e3] · Incremental collaboration signal (what changed and when). Poll to stay current; acknowledge so the server can advance your cursor · optional params: p38




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