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You’ll get it. It’s neither religious nor science/technical but the merging of the two.

Ritual without technology ain’t it and neither is technology without ritual.

Monks/robes and preachers are premature attempts.

LLMs are premature attempts.

We are trying, but those aren’t the ones.

In the good ol’ days, we just call all of this “Tooling and Methodology”, and if folks get weird about either tools, or methods, its just because the balance between the tool and the appropriate method hasn’t really been attained by the individual involved. The team has a responsibility to make sure each individual knows which tool to use for the job, and the methods of applying those tools .. that neither tooling, nor methodology can be applied successfully in one sense, without the other, is analogous to human religious experiences as a whole. A hammer misused, isn’t a hammer.

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