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AI Reliability

Writing about requirements that prompts alone cannot guarantee, and how to check them in the surrounding software.

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  1. If It Has to Happen, Don’t Put It in the Prompt

    Start with the coding example: worktree creation, validation, screenshots, and a review gate.

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  • If It Has to Happen, Don’t Put It in the Prompt

    Essay · ai · agents · ai reliability

    When agent instructions turn into all caps rules, the fix is often to move the requirement out of the prompt and into a workflow that can check it.

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