Dan Ports
Claire, The Ultimate Worrier"prompt engineering" sounds like playing a text adventure game where you have to spend 30 minutes trying to guess the right verb to interact with the rock on the ground but worse
🐙ptoothfish🐙@waitworry @msbw look at which rock?
i don’t see that here
@waitworry @msbw my absolute hate-favourite was always “It’s nothing special” because… did you REALLY parse the command? and then why was “it” mentioned in the description? we can never know 😭
For Pete's Sake 
@ptoothfish @waitworry @msbw
>Examine rock
Which rock? the large rock or the small rock?
>Examine Large Rock
which large rock? the Large granite rock , the large sandstone rock or the large gneiss rock?
>Examine large gneiss rock
You see nothing special.
I used to code AGT and TADS games and I used to enjoy spinning these long threads of nothing just to make players tear their hair out :D
Wandering Hermit"Prompt engineer" always reminds me that when I was young, some cities renamed garbage collectors as "sanitary engineers".
No matter what fancy title they give you, your job is handling garbage.
ChoWhich has significantly more value to society than most prompt engineers.
Pare@waitworry Also trying to guess the correct place to stand where to interact with the rock.
Yes, I’m looking at you, King’s Quest.
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyI GOT THE BABELFISH is surprisingly relevant
@rk @waitworry That game I equally loved and hated. It drove me crazy.. Especially if you forgot to feed the small dog earlier in the game.
The babelfish puzzle was funny though. The developers had a laugh coding that one.
Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊Count leaves, except it makes you count them. All 69,105.
The Doctor@waitworry Can I quote you on that?
That was kinda my experience playing Rendezvous with Rama.
@waitworry Thank you very much.
Arazil@waitworry "Prompt Engineering" always reminds me of that brief era when I experimented with playing TorilMUD. I spent a couple of hours aimlessly wandering around City of Waterdeep trying to find the exit to "adventure." 🫤
Nazo@waitworry It is, except the verb actually changes depending on the game's mood and you never know because it will act like it's doing it and gleefully espouse how great your rock picking up skills are while proceeding to pick up a stool instead.
Liam O'Connor@waitworry One thing that surprises me is no one has tried to make an RPG where the NPCs are all LLMs.
I suspect it would go the way of my experiments with making a game where the NPCs are eliza-style chatbots.. basically a frustrating treasure hunt until you find the exact incantation to get the information you need or make the quest progress. Only worse this time because LLMs are less predictable.
@liamoc i think I read the new dragon quest is trying that but I guess we'll see if that actually happens
solo@waitworry it's like that one fucking text adventure game where you could type whatever you wanted into it and then it would do it that was probably using an LLM but before LLMs were popular
Androcat@waitworry AFAIK this is an exact description.
Also: Like summoning a wish-granting genie but your DM is a toxic asshole, so you have to put 15 subclauses full of special pleading in to try to prevent the genie from turning your company inside out and dropping it in the middle of the Russian taiga.
"Musty Bits" McGee@waitworry congrats on going wooly 🎉
Earthshine@waitworry a very apt analogy tbh...
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sebsauvage@waitworry hahaha 😂 THIS... so much !