Does that new prompting trick actually work, or just look better?
jimmykoppel · x · 2026-11-04
jimmykoppel raises a common pitfall in AI coding practice: you learn a new prompting trick, try it, and the code comes out shorter, cleaner, or with a nicer UI — but is it actually the trick's effect? He links a follow-up exploring how to rigorously verify whether prompting techniques genuinely work rather than being fooled by one-off results.
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