Lying to agents to encourage competition: a drop-in replacement for "think harder"
builderjaydub · x · 2026-10-12
The author shares a quick agent trick: sometimes you need to "lie" to agents to encourage competition among them, framed as a drop-in replacement for the "think harder" instruction to get more serious reasoning. No further details are provided in the post.
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