The model follows rules it wrote itself and treats the rules you paste as suggestions
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Seen this enough times now to call it a pattern. Paste a list of constraints into a chat, "keep the chapters in this order, do not rename anything, no new dependencies", and within a few turns it is quietly violating one of them. Ask the same model to write those constraints as a document from your…
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- 2026-09-09 10:28 · r/PromptEngineering
The model follows rules it wrote itself and treats the rules you paste as suggestions