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Spent two days convinced our prompt had a bug. Prompt hadn't changed in months.

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Output quality on a classification task had been sliding for a couple weeks, nothing dramatic, just enough that someone finally flagged it. First instinct was the prompt, went through it line by line looking for something ambiguous, some instruction that could be read two ways. Found nothing. Rewro…

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  1. 2026-09-17 20:33 · r/OpenAI
    Spent two days convinced our prompt had a bug. Prompt hadn't changed in months.

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