Why prompts are your secret weapon
I was 6 years old when I started writing my first lines of code using a ZX Spectrum computer. At the time, in the mid-1980s, computers were still a new thing in the world, and not many people understood the extraordinary impact they were going to have on human society. Today, we all live in a reality dominated, and in many ways, driven by technology. The way we relate to technology has also changed fundamentally in the last 40 years. Almost all human activities have come to be touched to a greater or lesser extent by technological progress.
What hasn’t changed much is the way we interact with technology. With a few notable exceptions – such as the introduction of touch screens and voice interfaces – our interaction with technology has remained almost unchanged. We use, as we did 40 years ago, rudimentary methods to get computers to perform the functions we need.
Clarification
When I say rudimentary, I’m not necessarily...
