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Every Rule I Added Made It Worse: How Prompt Bloat Killed My Voice

I measured the system prompt from my old setup last week. It came to 224,833 characters, roughly 56,000 tokens, on every single call.

  • Reporter's prompt grew to 56,000 tokens due to excessive rules and constraints
  • Prompt became a program rather than a guide, deteriorating output quality
  • Fine-tuning model on desired voice reduced prompt length by 33 times

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