A small prompt change made the agent work for hours without weird failures
MoonL88537 · x · 2026-07-24
The thread says a small change in the conversation suddenly made the system much better: no /goal, no extra directions, no continue command, and the model could work for hours without the weird behavior that had been showing up before.
The screenshot expands the idea into an agent design principle: don’t turn the assistant into a giant workflow. Instead, keep the human as a nearby collaborator, let the AI preserve mid-turn continuity, use tools when needed, and explicitly document the boundary between “helping” and “driving.” The poster frames this as a better way to restore continuity, reduce confusion, and make agent behavior more reliable.
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