AIHacker Noonabout 4 hours ago
Prompt Debt: Old Instructions Break New AI Models
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Prompt debt, instructions outliving their original models, gained traction after Drew Breunig's June essay. Anthropic's Claude Code team cut system prompts for Fable 5 and Opus 4.8 by 80%. OpenAI recommends leaner prompts for GPT-5.6. Mike Taylor argues prebuilt instruction packages fight existing model capabilities.
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