We optimize prompts for confident-sounding output. That might be the wrong metric entirely.
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Something I keep running into when testing prompts against real tasks: the outputs that sound most authoritative aren't more likely to be correct. They're just more likely to be specific. A prompt that produces "the bug is in the auth middleware, line 40" feels like a better output than one that pr…
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- 2026-09-11 15:02 · r/PromptEngineering
We optimize prompts for confident-sounding output. That might be the wrong metric entirely.