'Tell your agent to find all implicit state machines' — and neither dev knows what one is
RajaswaPatil · x · 2026-11-10
A reposted dev joke about coding-agent prompting:
- One dev insists you "HAVE TO tell your agent to find all the implicit state machines in your repo"
- The other says he already did, calling it a great prompt that "really works"
- Then they ask each other whether they actually know what an implicit state machine is — neither does
The punchline: everyone copies impressive-sounding prompts without understanding them.
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