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Your prompts are tech debt.

2026-06-03 Science & Technology
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prompts, agent instructions, and project markdown files become technical debt when they grow stale overtime Thank you Arcjet for sponsoring! Check them out at: https://soydev.link/arcjet SOURCES: https://www.seangoedecke.com/prompts-are-technical-debt-too/ Want to sponsor a video? Learn more here: https://soydev.link/sponsor-me Check out my Twitch, Twitter, Discord more at https://t3.gg S/O @Ph4seon3 for the awesome edit 🙏

Top Comments (10)

@PointerSoftwareSystems 2026-06-03

We really went from spaghetti code to spaghetti prompts. What a time to be alive.

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@pabloi2735 2026-06-03

I always keep my prompts in Obsidian, so they’re safe. Cheers.

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@beefchalupa 2026-06-03

Only theo can stretch a 3 minute article about a very simple idea into a 20 minute video

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@moins-intelligent 2026-06-03

Technical debt will be largely solved in 6-12 months, big D(ario) said so.

108 3 replies
@williamlvea 2026-06-03

inb4 "Token costs are too high, so corporate has now mandated that all AI users use Grug speak as few word do trick"

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@alexczzc 2026-06-03

Obsidian would never give you tech debt

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@sh1maru 2026-06-03

I've experimented with this a lot. I can say that the best models (gpt and opus) work best with an EMPTY system prompt and a minimal number of tools (in most cases, just a shell is enough). The more you write there, the more the model will run in circles in its neurosis, double-checking whether it's taken everything into account. Burns tokens, fill up the context and worsens the results

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@TristanMarkBarrow 2026-06-03

Theo actually has a fog machine in his filming setup.

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@darkerisbetter8699 2026-06-03

Did this earlier today. First time I haven’t “fallen behind” in months.

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@Handle8196 2026-06-03

May I suggest that the ideal or implicit assumption of determinism is so central to our sense of the meaning of Engineering, that working with something so explicitly non-deterministic is closer to what we would would more correctly call Conjuring. You are no longer an Engineer. You are an Alchemist. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Newton was one as well.

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