On Text as Interface
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- He says that the true joy of programming comes when you can do it without a reference, offline. Perhaps programming on a flight is prototypical. For him, it was the Trans-Siberian Railway. I think it may be the reason he’s built so many little tools for himself, which compose into wholes. Its programming as direct expression of the mind, channeled through the body (View Highlight)
- Instead, “prompt engineers” are structuralist anthropologists, teasing apart the linguistic system embedded in the latent space. The critical dimension provided is outside the generated (kitsch) content. Like a photographer who frames reality, the prompteur can frame artifacts from the latent-space of the dataset. Though here it is second-order: a framing of a framing of reality. (View Highlight)
title: “On Text as Interface”
author: “cristobal.space”
url: ”https://cristobal.space/writing/text-as-interface”
date: 2023-12-19
source: reader
tags: media/articles
On Text as Interface
Metadata
Highlights
- He says that the true joy of programming comes when you can do it without a reference, offline. Perhaps programming on a flight is prototypical. For him, it was the Trans-Siberian Railway. I think it may be the reason he’s built so many little tools for himself, which compose into wholes. Its programming as direct expression of the mind, channeled through the body (View Highlight)
- Instead, “prompt engineers” are structuralist anthropologists, teasing apart the linguistic system embedded in the latent space. The critical dimension provided is outside the generated (kitsch) content. Like a photographer who frames reality, the prompteur can frame artifacts from the latent-space of the dataset. Though here it is second-order: a framing of a framing of reality. (View Highlight)