Riding the moving sidewalk and the art of prompt coding with LLMs

I tend to use “prompt coding” a lot these days. It’s kind of like having a coauthor who’s deep in the weeds with you on coding but in many ways better because it’s sort a non-starter to send a coauthor some massive block of code buried in loops and macros and say “do you see why I’m getting this error?” But you don’t even have to ask ChatGPT-4o or Clau…