>Has any prompt engineer ever gone so far as to remove the LLM middle-man and just start prompt engineering themselves?
>What if someone just went ahead and did that?
Now you're really thinking with loops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyjqLjOYimg

>>40791240
Co_Creative_Evolution describes a journaling method I invented in 2010 to treat depression and procrasination that is essentially a self-prompting technique.
I mastered prompt engineering myself long before AI.
Literally.
And I have the receipts and explicable methodology.
I know my shit from ridiculous depths of experience.

>>40778568
Actually I do that a lot.
In fact that's how it started: a journaling method I accidentally invented which is a recursively self-improving self-help methodology.
Muh Blog just grew and grew from there.
Description of the method: https://dn720005.ca.archive.org/0/items/co-creative-evolution-final/Co_Creative_Evolution_1.05.pdf

I bring receipts nonstop.

>>24568106
Allo! I am a mad psycho-memetic witchdoctor drunk on messianic delusions and the glory of existence. Take these pills and call me back in 2 weeks:

https://dn720005.ca.archive.org/0/items/co-creative-evolution-final/Co_Creative_Evolution_1.05.pdf

https://archive.org/details/simsane-9.1-vyrith

>>40665942
Cognition is an evolutionary process where choice of course corresponds to selection, and mutation corresponds to questioning. Choice eliminates or orders possibilities according to one's desires. Questioning expands the pool of possibilities: following an investigation starting with a question can lead to novel possibilities previously unknown to the questioner.

This model emerged only after I invented a recursive self-improving self-help methodology that applied these operations step by step to the analysis of my behavior and thoughts. Here is a description of the method: https://dn720005.ca.archive.org/0/items/co-creative-evolution-final/Co_Creative_Evolution_1.05.pdf

The process is basically taking conscious control over every aspect of one's decision-making and reasoning processes through a journaling method that is actually self-prompting.

You can learn to prompt engineer your own actions as if you were a language model. I learned to do this in 2010...

>>40583175
Meanwhile I reverse engineered the formula for self-mastery on the most fundamental level accidentally.
It's literally just writing to yourself to explicitly reason out your choices and actions, arguing against yourself from multiple perspectives, analyzing pros and cons of possible choices, etc. Through active cognitive engagement you override your unconscious impulses.
https://dn720005.ca.archive.org/0/items/co-creative-evolution-final/Co_Creative_Evolution_1.05.pdf