Readers identify prompt-injection artifacts and redundant implementation details
2 Sep 27 11:00 AM · 1d ago · 4 comments · 1 source · development 2 of 5
Multiple commenters on Hacker News validated specific observations from the essay. weakfish noted that AI systems leak chat context into final designs (the "3 campuses, one app" phrasing). minimaxir and vallerie pointed out that developers can constrain AI outputs through explicit negative prompts and human refinement of generated prose.
“People don't realize that you're allowed to tell LLMs/agents "no." Don't like the gaudy color palettes? "Use this color palette with a white-dominant background"”
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I’ve been trying to put my finger on what it is that is happening when the robot writes stuff like “3 campuses, one app” example, I’m glad the author was able to identify it as chat context leaking through.The other version of it is the robot over-indexing on some part of the prompt and leaving comments places. An example is I ask it to prefer…
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Love this blog mentioning the issue of implementation detail in prose. Likely my biggest irk of vibe coded apps.Much of this is it's a simple problem to solve - just prompt agent of choice "Put all user visible text into a translation file for i10n" and then go through and edit said prose as a human.
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I just can't fathom how a multi-billion dollar company like Cloudflare could forego their design standards. They seem to have updated their landing page [0], but it's still very sloppy.[0]
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These are all accurate and bad, but I have to wonder how many of these issues are just our current “ai can’t do hands” that will eventually be solved.
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