The middle of a long prompt is where your constraints go to die
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Write a long prompt with ten requirements and check the output against all ten. The first two and the last one are usually honored. The ones buried in the middle, word limit, no bullet points, do not mention the competitor, are the ones that quietly get dropped. Nothing in the answer admits it, so…
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- 2026-09-16 13:56 · r/PromptEngineering
The middle of a long prompt is where your constraints go to die