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211 instructions across 14 system prompt files, and 23 of them directly contradicted each other

Our backend has 14 files containing system prompts fed to LLM calls. I had never read them all together. Last week I did, pulling every distinct instruction into a spreadsheet. Total was 211 instruction lines. I sorted them into five categories. Role definitions: 38. Format constraints covering out…

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  1. 2026-09-18 20:42 · r/PromptEngineering
    211 instructions across 14 system prompt files, and 23 of them directly contradicted each other

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