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How thick do you write your prompts?

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Spent months assuming prompt thickness was a speed-vs-safety slider: one-liners when you're in a hurry, full specs when it matters. Then I started paying attention to where my dispatches actually failed, and the slider theory fell apart. The thing that finally clicked: a one-line prompt isn't spec-…

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  1. 2026-08-31 05:07 · r/PromptEngineering
    How thick do you write your prompts?

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