{
  "id": 4667661,
  "title": "Prompt Debt: How Old Instructions Break New AI Models",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/prompt-debt-how-old-instructions-break-new-ai-models",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-31T14:37:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "HackerNoon",
    "slug": "hackernoon",
    "url": "https://hackernoon.com/prompt-debt-how-old-instructions-break-new-ai-models?source=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Old prompts can break new models. Here’s how prompt debt builds up in skills, system prompts, and agent loops, and how to refactor it.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}