Developers debate how LLMs distinguish system instructions from context text

Developers debated whether LLMs treat context markers like "User" as special or just plain text. Some argued proper training can make models ignore injected instructions from web content and strictly follow developer system prompts.

2026-08-31 ~ 2026-09-01 · 2 related posts

• User debates if models treat 'User' label as mechanism or just text — voooooogel · 2026-08-31
• Dev discusses training models to ignore external instructions in tool calls — williawa · 2026-09-01