Michael Mann's HEAT editing notes read just like prompting agents
thesephist · x · 2026-11-10
Geoffrey Litt shares director Michael Mann's detailed notes to his editors after a screening of HEAT—written just 3 months before its December 15, 1995 release—and points out the resemblance to prompting agents: detailed creative feedback, communicated intent, delivered as text. A resonant analogy between film-directing workflows and modern agent prompting.
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