Published May 11, 2026
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You Are What You Prompt: The Ontological Shift in Engineering Mastery
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The fundamental axiom of the new job market is a reflection of biological reality: You are what you eat. In the context of AI literacy, the output quality of the machine is a high-fidelity mirror of the engineer's prompting quality. A "junk food" prompt—vague, bossy, and logically thin—results in "Digital Diabetes," characterized by bloated, hallucinated, and unstable code.