What I Added to My Prompts to Stop Models From Wandering
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A few months ago, I was doing agentic coding with DeepSeek V4 Pro. It was cheap, it was fast, and it kept getting lost. I'd watch the stream response in real time. The model would open a config file it didn't need. Then a test file. Then some unrelated utility. Then circle back. Minutes gone, nothing done. I'd sit there thinking: what a dumb model, can't do much. Every session ended the same way. I'd give up on DeepSeek and switch to a frontier model to actually finish the thing. I thought the…
1Key Takeaways
- A few months ago, I was doing agentic coding with DeepSeek V4 Pro.
- It was cheap, it was fast, and it kept getting lost.
- I'd watch the stream response in real time.
- The model would open a config file it didn't need.
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Prompt and agent patterns spread fast; staying current saves time and token cost. DEV — Prompt Engineering reports that a few months ago, I was doing agentic coding with DeepSeek V4 Pro.
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