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As a programmer, I'd just tell them "I configure contraptions to perform tasks for people"
Magic. Got it.
"Some other guys figured out how to trick rocks into doing stuff by putting lightning into them
I just write to the rocks instructions for how to do some work. I get paid for doing that."
"You know how clockwork automatons work?"
"No."
"Me neither."