Why your AI prompts get worse every time you patch them
alex_verem · x · 2026-09-22
An article shared by freeaiguides, "Your AI prompts are getting worse every time you fix them," describes a common anti-pattern: to curb verbose replies, a user writes "keep responses short" in custom instructions—then a week later the model answers complex questions in two lines. Each local fix creates new overfitting elsewhere, so repeated prompt patching degrades behavior over time. Full analysis is in the linked article.
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