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Has anyone else found that better prompts aren't always longer prompts?

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I've been experimenting with prompts for different generative AI tasks, and one thing I've noticed is that adding more and more instructions doesn't always improve the result. What seems to help most is being clear about the goal, giving the model enough context to understand what I'm trying to ach…

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  1. 2026-09-08 15:51 · r/PromptEngineering
    Has anyone else found that better prompts aren't always longer prompts?

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