Hardcoding LLM prompts is fine until it isn't. Here's what we built instead.
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I had a bug last month that took most of a Saturday to find. A support bot we shipped started promising refund timelines that didn't match policy. Customer complaints, frantic Slack messages, the usual. The prompt had changed three weeks earlier. Nobody could remember why. Git blame pointed to a one-line edit inside a 200-line SYSTEM_PROMPT constant. No PR description, no diff worth reading. That's when I knew I'd been writing prompts wrong for the last two years. PromptOT - Prompt Management…
1Key Takeaways
- I had a bug last month that took most of a Saturday to find.
- A support bot we shipped started promising refund timelines that didn't match policy.
- Customer complaints, frantic Slack messages, the usual.
- The prompt had changed three weeks earlier.
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3Why it matters
Prompt and agent patterns spread fast; staying current saves time and token cost. DEV — Prompt Engineering reports that i had a bug last month that took most of a Saturday to find.
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