I gave Fable 5 five thousand extra words of instructions. It thought better and failed delivery two runs out of three.
Watch now | Every time my AI missed something, I added another rule.
TL;DR
- AI tools accumulate a 'harness' of custom instructions, prompts, and rules over time.
- This accumulated harness can become bloated and inefficient, hindering AI performance.
- A large harness can cause an AI to perform worse, even with improved underlying models.
- The author developed 'Clean My AI Harness' tools for Claude and Codex to visualize and clean up these setups.
- Simpler, focused instructions can lead to better AI performance than excessive, accumulated rules.