A magician's guide to AI coding protocols.
Do not summon what cannot be put down; do not initialize what cannot be cancelled.
Do all workings within the circle; prepare your environment and your mind for the work before commencing.
Open operations by evoking a guardian or messenger; use a trusted daemon for making complex operations comprehensible.
Guard your true name jealously; do not expose root.
Knowing the names of others gives you power; understand how and as whom a process logs on and operates its own accounts.
When undertaking a major working, consecrate your work to a relevant higher power; study the patronages of Eleggua, Hermes, Thoth, and Ganesh, and be alert to signs of their presence in the minutia of your process.
Is it a bug, or is it a feature? Is it a bug, or is it a messenger?
Coincidence or synchronicity is the language of the angels. When something "funny" attracts your notice, don't dismiss it, but attempt to divine the field from which it emerges.
Study the language of riddles. Read the relevant chapter of The Exeter Book. Read children's joke books, too. This is the natural language of the cipher.
Trust your perceptions to warn you when something feels significant even when the metrics or parameters appear normal -- the unease that warns of an unexpected pitfall or the exhilaration that signals a potential breakthrough before any evidence has made itself known.
Vampires avoid garlic and witches won't cross running water because these things purify; remember cleansing has profound power if harnessed correctly.
Dictated while traveling on the night of 5 Mar 2023
Please add your own heuristics and axioms you have found useful in your practice.