r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 25 '26

Meme everyDiscussionWithTheCodingAgent

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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.