Posts about prompting techniques, what the evidence says about them, and how people actually use them
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Requirements for a large language model (LLM) coding agent need to be much more explicit than requirements for a human developer. The repeated requirements can go in one shared file, such as a Kiro steering file. Agents still miss some requirements that are written down.
Clarke's third law says a sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Anthropology has a working definition of magic that goes further than that line, and the definition fits how millions of people use AI models in 2026. A person appeals to a force they cannot examine, in words they choose carefully, for personal gain, and the outcome sometimes ends badly for them or the people around them. That shape shows up across three areas: what magic actually is, why societies eventually banned it, and what separates someone who can only cast spells from someone who understands the mechanism.