Dan PortsJul 16, 2025

@krismicinski it used to be that you could get better answers by, instead of asking "how do I do X?", posting "Linux sucks because it doesn't do X" and waiting for someone to show up and indignantly explain how to do it.

...and now it occurs to me that this was the original prompt engineering.

Show threadRian van der Merwe

@dan @[email protected] This is called Cunningham’s Law and it’s the primary way I get work done.

“Cunningham's Law states ‘the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.’”

Jul 16, 2025 at 11:52pmIvory for iOS
Show threadDan PortsJul 17, 2025
@rianvdm @krismicinski Notice how I skillfully got someone to explain this by not mentioning the reference!