I think my favorite thing about leaked LLM system prompts is that they codify what programmers have been screaming at, demanding from, pleading with software to do for decades.

This sentiment could come from any time between Babbage and now: “For the love of all that is holy, please just goddamned work, just once! Do not give me the same error you have before! I do not care about that particular corner-case you are obsessed with, and I want you to just do as I fucking say!”

Only now, instead of landing as flecks of spittle on the monitor, it’s checked in and versioned.