Edition 9 — Prompting is basic now. The leverage moved up the ladder.

Prompting is basic now. The leverage moved up the ladder. Shipped: - New Chapter 40 — "Prompting, or the Knob You Probably Shouldn't Tune" (~3,200 words, 12-min read). The contrarian take: prompting is a basic skill now, the real ladder is skills → swarms → memory → data layer. Opens with the verbatim "rigor enforcer" prompt (works, but the wrong leverage) and contrasts it side-by-side with…