What LLMs 'Know' That You Don't Know They Know: Stop Inventing Prompt DSLs and Ride 50 Years of Unix Pre-Training Gravity
Why did a 1976 Makefile (Part 3.6) and a 1983 Unix init.d directory (Part 3.7) outperform 2,000 lines of English prompt rules? Because prompt engineering is static symbol linkage against 50 years of pre-trained computer science canon.
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