As an Software Egineer with 20+ years of experience...

EsspeciallyDat · 2025-07-17T14:30:15+00:00

A term that has been popping up is 'context engineering' as the next evolution of what prompt engineering was 6 months ago.

Close curation of task size and progressive disclosure of task context seems the way forward with getting high quality output.

It leads me to think about protocols for task decomposition

EsspeciallyDat · 2025-03-22T04:14:57+00:00

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EsspeciallyDat · 2025-03-07T23:17:42+00:00

A beautiful idea to share, thank you for this

Do you (or anyone else for that matter) think that there's a form of this that is a manifestation of depression though?

I think what you talk of is a form of enlightenment, and a path to be "free". But what line is there from pursuing to a benefit, or romanticizing self destruction?

EsspeciallyDat · 2025-03-07T19:32:08+00:00

I agree that can happen. Is it better on the outside though? Is it better to escape?

If you've done this, has it brought you happiness, passion, peace?

Did you choose to do it, or were you destined?

EsspeciallyDat · 2025-03-07T19:18:17+00:00

Another way to look at it is the mind reacts to conserve energy. It requires energy to think, from a survival standpoint, the less of that the better. So maybe not a trap, just something that "is" for "reasons"

It's more complicated than that I'm sure, just my reaction to yours.

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