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Why vague prompts fail even when the instructions are technically correct"

You can write a prompt where every single instruction is grammatically accurate, logically sound, and technically correct yet the model still outputs generic, off target, or hallucinated responses. The issue usually isn't what you told the model to do; it’s how vague framing creates structural ambi…

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  1. 2026-10-22 13:13 · r/PromptEngineering
    Why vague prompts fail even when the instructions are technically correct"

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