Prompting rule: ban fallbacks so AI models can't cheat around core work
Daniel_Farinax · x · 2026-09-19
The author shares a rule for all AI models: no fallbacks allowed — always force the model to make the core feature work instead of building a fallback, which is usually the model being lazy and cheating its way around the work.
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