Engineers say skip soul.md for agents, disabling first person works better

Engineers including jessfraz argue that instead of writing persona files like soul.md for agents, telling LLMs to never use first person and explicitly acknowledge they are LLMs works far better. The discussion also raised concerns that failing to reach 'escape velocity' could trap AI as a permanent tool.

2026-11-01 ~ 2026-11-02 · 2 related posts

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