Stop writing prompts like prose: the 4-part contract that kills LLM drift
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Most "prompt engineering" advice is about phrasing. The real problem is that people write prompts the way they write emails — as prose — and then act surprised when the model "drifts" between runs. Production prompts aren't prose. They're contracts. A contract has to define four things explicitly,…
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- 2026-10-12 08:54 · DEV Community — AI
Stop writing prompts like prose: the 4-part contract that kills LLM drift