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my AI got lazier for months. the fix wasn't a better prompt.

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Something shifted a few months back. Output got shorter. Steps started going missing. Not wrong answers, just incomplete ones. Lists with 3 items where there used to be 8. First move was the obvious one, added "be thorough" and "don't skip steps" to the prompt. Zero effect. Then the scolding phase,…

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  1. 2026-08-31 07:44 · r/PromptEngineering
    my AI got lazier for months. the fix wasn't a better prompt.

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