Rewrite count is a useless signal for deciding if a prompt needs real infrastructure around it
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Most people treat "I've rewritten this prompt a dozen times" as the signal that it's time to build something more solid around it. It isn't. Rewrite count tracks how much friction someone felt, not how much a bad output actually costs. A prompt can get rewritten constantly and still be low-stakes e…
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- 2026-08-26 22:05 · r/PromptEngineering
Rewrite count is a useless signal for deciding if a prompt needs real infrastructure around it