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smusamashah • today at 12:13 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I was at uni in 2005. A mate wanted to search for a book and wrote something like this in Google search "go to digital library and find me this book". We laughed at what he did back then, searched for "<book name>" in quotes and may be with filetype I dont remember and found the book.

I think about that lots of times when I google these days. That he wasn't wrong, was just asking it 15 years too early.


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conorcleary • today at 1:23 PM

an interface goes from the programmer's concept to written code, transformed into a frontend for the programmer and the rest of humanity to prompt (verb); eventually the accumulated prompts from a programmer get brute-forced into design fundamentals like evolution in nature, or the frontend is designed to go around this (apple style UX).