Hindsight recall: the agent found the export timeouts, but my prompt buried them
sudip_26 · reddit · 2026-11-08
The author recounts debugging export timeouts with an LLM: in hindsight, the model had already surfaced the root cause in its output, but the author's own prompt framing buried those findings so they went unnoticed. A practical postmortem on how prompt structure determines whether an agent's correct conclusions get surfaced or lost.
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