When you write "check for issues" in a review prompt, does silence mean "nothing wrong" or "didn't check that specifically"? How do you make that distinction explicit?
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Ran into this after a generic "review this code" prompt stayed silent on a duplicate-submission risk in retry logic, not because the model couldn't catch it, asked directly about that specific risk afterward, it answered correctly right away. It just never got pointed at that question in the first…
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- 2026-08-23 13:40 · r/PromptEngineering
When you write "check for issues" in a review prompt, does silence mean "nothing wrong" or "didn't check that specifically"? How do you make that distinction explicit?
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