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There's a full fledged 'reasoning' step that basically expands your prompt.

As long as you are not missing important information, how you word the prompt does not have any effect.

Isn’t that a huge simplification? Of course the way you phrase the prompt can carry semantic meaning, maybe subtly, but still. And sometimes that matters a little and sometimes a lot. I’ve stopped numerous agent sessions over the last few weeks to reword my initial prompt to get the agent off an unintended track.

> reword my initial prompt to get the agent off an unintended track.

The signal here is the action of stopping the agent “do something else, this is stupid”, not a tweak to the initial prompt.

Oh yeah, I suspected it was something like this. Thanks!

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