AI engineers are basically Taoist priests: prompts as summoning incantations
sujingshen · x · 2026-10-31
A viral Chinese AI-circle joke: the AI engineer is essentially a Taoist priest — the incantations mages and shamans recite in fantasy fiction are just fixed-format summoning commands, exactly like today's prompt engineering. Funny and oddly philosophical.
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