Longer prompts are treated as a free improvement too often

Every extra instruction needs a reason and a check that the earlier conditions still hold. Otherwise the prompt gets longer while the result gets harder to diagnose.

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2026-10-17 22:33 · r/PromptEngineering
Longer prompts are treated as a free improvement too often

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