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Prestidigitating...
verb
Definition
- 1
verb
Performing sleight of hand with tokens; producing, by methods invisible to the observer, an answer that was plainly nowhere a moment ago.
- 2
verb
Conjuring a function from thin air and the vague memory of a Stack Overflow post.
Example
“Prestidigitating a regex that shouldn't work — but does.”— Claude Code, unwisely confident