Adam Keys is Thinking

Computers are also free to be weird:

I’m a programmer. You’re probably a programmer. We think in systems, deterministic workflows, and abstractions. What’s more natural for us than viewing LLMs as an extremely slow kind of unreliable computer that we program with natural language?

This is a weird form of metaprogramming: we write “code” in the form of prompts that execute on the LLM to produce the actual code that runs on real CPUs.

— Mario Zechner, Taming agentic engineering - Prompts are code, .json/.md files are state

This workflow, for tedious porting of animation engine code to many languages and targets, has a lot of human-in-the-loop affordances. If I were a betting man, I’d wager on human supervision entering the lexicon as context engineering and vibe coding fade in the hype cycle.