I would like to think that, as Mike Caulfield says, "the magic tricks phase of prompting is over," but as long as there's a LinkedIn, there are going to be 'magic tricks' articles. But what Caulfield is saying here is that we don't need that any more (if we ever did). "Your value add is, for the most part, figuring out how to do things, and figuring out how to explain them in a way that someone other than you can do them... Your special power is in better understanding the things you already know. Focus on how to do the thing." Yes. That's how I'm using Claude to write software, and how I actually write these posts by hand. There's no trick. (That's also how I feel theories in education generally- in this article that role is filled by all the cute acronyms). (p.s. Cast Away is one of my favourite movies ever and it's just this analysis that makes it so clear why it is.)
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