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I knew where every electrical impulse went through an Apple ][. I wrote operating systems and knew every opcode for the 80386 (and know many today). I built speakers. I built software drivers for a sound interface on a parallel port that I soldered from resistors. Then, in grad school, I learned AI. Built neural nets. Did computer vision. Learned it was a dead end (which it was, in the mid 1990s). AI is not inside me. I'm inside it. I've made it, for a grade and out of curiosity. It isn't magic. It's a tool. It's a hammer, a hexdump, a linter. It's YACC and Conway's Game of Life, only a larger scale. LLMs aren't magic or supernatural. They are boring and mundane. It's what you do that is important. The prompt is empty without you. And if you think you live in that prompt, you will. But, just like everything that came before, it's not what tool you use, but how you use it.