Funny Model Fail: A 'Load-Bearing' Instruction to Stay Quiet
astralmatrix · x · 2026-08-20
A developer shared a humorous instance where a model was so bad at instruction following that a specific instruction reminding it to 'shut up' had to be included in every single turn (including tool-calls). Removing it caused the model to malfunction.
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