You Wrote a Rule and the Model Heard a Preference
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The instruction was in capitals. Never quote a price. It held for four hundred conversations, and then it quoted a price to somebody who screenshotted it. Nothing broke. Nothing changed. You had simply misunderstood what that sentence was. A line in a prompt is not a rule. There is no part of the s…
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- 2026-09-22 07:02 · DEV Community — AI
You Wrote a Rule and the Model Heard a Preference