We broke production with a one-word prompt edit and git could not tell us
The change was a single word. We softened "must" to "should" in a system prompt to make the tone friendlier. The agent stopped emitting one JSON field consistently, a downstream parser threw, and the incident review had no commit to point at - because the prompt did not live in the repo. It lived i…
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- 2026-11-11 05:25 · DEV Community — AI
We broke production with a one-word prompt edit and git could not tell us