Your prompts aren’t the problem — something else is

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I keep seeing people focus heavily on prompt optimization. But in practice, a lot of failures I’ve observed don’t come from the prompt itself. They show up at the transition point where: model output → real-world action Examples: - outputs that are correct in isolation but wrong in context - timing mismatches (right decision, wrong moment) - differences between environments (test vs live) - small context gaps that compound into bad outcomes The pattern seems consistent: improving prompt quali...