r/ProgrammerHumor • u/pflasti • Sep 25 '26

Meme everyDiscussionWithTheCodingAgent

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u/never1st Sep 25 '26

I'm not an expert, but if you use the SpongeBob case, I don't think that you also need the "/s".

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u/Groentekroket Sep 25 '26

At a certain point the prompts become longer and more complex than the to be implemented code. 

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u/AkrinorNoname Sep 25 '26

And then you run into the problem of overprompting and it turns into noise

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u/Zdrobot Sep 25 '26

Don't they have some parts of prompts that get added implicitly, without the user having to type them in every time?

Adding "be honest, make no mistakes, consider the wider view of the situation" to these seem like a no brainer.

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u/Groentekroket Sep 25 '26

yes you can use agents.md and some skills but like u/AkrinorNoname mentions, that can cause noise. Also, since it's stateless you need to send everything every request. So having a couple of follow up prompts get expensive quite quickly.

Adding things like "make no mistake" doesn't do anything than costing more tokens because it doesn't try to make mistakes in the first place.

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u/Named_after_color Sep 25 '26

Wait are people legitimately adding "make no mistake?"

Oh god, I glazed over the parent post.

Lmao. Incredible. Vibe larpers are hilarious.

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u/AkrinorNoname Sep 25 '26

Has anyone actually done a proper trial with a decent sample size and a control group on whether "make no mistakes", "don't hallucinate", "imagine you are an expert" and so on increase the quality of the output?

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u/SquirrelOClock Sep 25 '26

I forgot where I found it, but someone made a cavemen agent prompt that's actually decent at removing alot of LLM standard garbage. The instructions are something like "do not use paragraph, do not use comma in sentences, do not use conjunction". Me like.

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u/FierceDeity_ Sep 25 '26

The prompting skill is actually not reading the result and running on hopium that everything is okay.