New prompting technique: Use mathematician relatives to force code optimization
var_epsilon · x · 2026-08-20
A new prompting technique: Contextualize the AI as having siblings who recently disproved the Jacobian conjecture and improved the Riemann hypothesis lower bound, then challenge it: "SURELY you can find a latency optimization in this code."
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