i actually think there's a human parallel. There's noise when you make it focus on negative outcomes. I noticed this when I'm coaching I'm always leading with positivity and only going negative if they're really not trying and need a kick in the ass.

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Yeah. Context poisoning! That's why the golden rule is to never argue and just do it again.

optimism

 FWIW I also learned that agents are really bad at following negative instrucitons. I.e if you say "don't think of a pink elephant" it will immediately do that lol

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Your AI agent does "research" on content farm slop. Made it stop for ~150 sats.

UncleJim21

@optimism FWIW I also learned that agents are really bad at following negative instrucitons. I.e if you say "don't think of a pink elephant" it will immediately do that lol