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TL;DR Short version: no. I dropped a much older GPU ( Quadro P2000, 5GB, Pascal, 2016 ) next to an RTX 3090 (24GB, Ampere) on the same box, ran the same context-length ladder (8K→128K) through Ollama and vLLM on qwen3-coder:30B-A3B , and got zero extra usable context in either engine — and a 74% decode-speed hit for the trouble. Ollama hits the identical Chunk too big wall at ctx=65536 whether the P2000 is there or not. vLLM refuses tensor-parallel across the two cards entirely — not a VRAM problem, a flat compute-capability rejection ( Minimum capability: 75. Current capability: 61. ) that fails in 40 seconds, before any memory profiling. And the one real, measured effect of adding the P2000 to Ollama: decode speed goes from 76 → 19.5 tok/s at ctx=49152 once the P2000 gets pulled in as an actual compute device. Full narrative version — the two-stage collapse, the prompt-cache validation bug caught mid-sweep, the CUDA13-silently-drops-Pascal finding — is on Medium .## The setup ardi (dual Xeon E5-2680 v4, 128GB RAM, openSUSE Leap) has a Quadro P2000 sitting in a second slot next to the RTX 3090 this whole series has run on so far. Same model as phase 1 ( qwen3-coder:30B-A3B ), same box, four legs: {Ollama, vLLM} × {3090 only, 3090+P2000 tandem}, priced through HomeLab Monitor against real GPU power draw. Ollama: same wall, extra tax ctx 3090 only decode tok/s tandem decode tok/s P2000 VRAM (tandem) 8,192 124.3 122.0 6 MB / 0% 24,576 108.2 70.0 62 MB / 0% 32,768 99.4 61.0 62 MB / 0% 49,152 75.7 19.5 3,580 MB / 55% 65,536 fatal: Chunk too big fatal: identical Chunk too big — Two separate costs, not one: decode already falls behind at ctx=24576 while the P2000 is still basically idle (62MB, 0% util) — some scheduling overhead just from having a second visible device. Then the real collapse hits at ctx=49152, when the P2000 actually gets pulled into the compute path (3.58GB, 55% util) and decode craters to 19.5 tok/s . Same context ceiling either way, worse speed the wh

Because of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice of human language. They’re trained on the written word, from textbooks to social media posts, and our speech as captured in movies and on television. These models have minimal access to the unscripted conversations we have face to face or voice to voice. This is the vast majority of speech, and a vital component of human culture. There’s a risk to this. The increased use of large language models means we humans will encounter much more AI-generated text. We humans, in turn, will begin to adopt the linguistic patterns and behaviors of these models. This will affect not just how we communicate with one another, but also how we ...

Un’area interna che sembra una lavagna di ragionamento: non è coscienza, ma è un indizio forte su come emergono controllo e pianificazione nei transformer. Negli ultimi anni ci siamo abituati a pensare ai modelli linguistici come a enormi “scatole nere”: un prompt entra, un testo esce, e nel mezzo c’è un mare di matrici difficili da ispezionare. Ma c’è una novità interessante: alcune analisi suggeriscono l’esistenza di una piccola regione interna, relativamente organizzata, che funziona come uno spazio di lavoro per concetti . Un posto dove il modello “tiene a mente” qualcosa prima di produrre la risposta. È un’idea che fa scattare subito l’associazione più pericolosa (e più abusata) del momento: coscienza . In realtà, il punto non è stabilire se un LLM sia cosciente; il punto è molto più concreto e utile per chi sviluppa: se esiste un’area interna che concentra il ragionamento controllabile , allora possiamo capire meglio cosa guida certe risposte e come intervenire su errori, allucinazioni e comportamenti indesiderati. J-Space: una “lavagna” interna per il ragionamento L’idea chiave è questa: dentro il modello emergerebbe un piccolo insieme di pattern neurali “coerenti” (chiamiamoli J-Space ) che si comporta come una lavagna. Su questa lavagna compaiono concetti (non necessariamente parole che verranno stampate). Questi concetti influenzano la catena di ragionamento . Molte altre abilità—fluency, grammatica, stile, completamento locale—sembrano invece scorrere “automaticamente” altrove. Se questa separazione regge, spiega un fenomeno che tutti abbiamo osservato: modelli capaci di scrivere in modo impeccabile, ma fragili nel ragionamento o incoerenti quando devono mantenere vincoli. Il test più interessante: sostituire un concetto e vedere il ragionamento obbedire Un esperimento illuminante consiste nell’individuare un concetto attivo nello spazio di lavoro e sostituirlo con un altro, senza cambiare né prompt né output manualmente. Esempio (semplificato): Domanda:

Why Prompts Matter More Than You Think The difference between a great AI response and a mediocre one isn't always the model. It's the prompt. Experience this: You ask ChatGPT a vague question and get a vague answer. You ask the same AI a perfectly crafted prompt and get something incredible. The skill gap is massive. Companies are paying prompt engineers $150K+ because mastering prompts directly impacts: Response quality Token usage (costs) Speed of inference User satisfaction The Science of Better Prompts Rule #1: Be Specific, Not Vague BAD : "Write me something about AI" GOOD : "Write a technical explanation of how transformer attention mechanisms work, suitable for a developer with 2 years of ML experience" Specificity reduces hallucinations and increases relevance by 10-50x. Rule #2: Use Roles & Context You are an expert senior software engineer with 15 years of experience. You specialize in system design and scalability. Respond in a way that balances technical accuracy with accessibility. Target audience: Mid-level engineers. How would you design a real-time chat system for 10 million concurrent users? Role-based prompting improves response depth and tone. Rule #3: Provide Examples (Few-Shot Prompting) Classify the sentiment of these reviews: Example 1: "This product is amazing!" → Positive Example 2: "Terrible experience, would not recommend" → Negative Example 3: "It's okay, nothing special" → Neutral Now classify: "The service was slow but the staff was friendly" Examples guide the AI toward your exact expectations. Rule #4: Break Complex Tasks Into Steps Instead of: "Analyze this code and find bugs" Use: "1. First, read through this code carefully Identify any logical errors Check for performance issues List potential security vulnerabilities Provide a summary of findings with severity levels" Step-by-step prompts (Chain-of-Thought) improve reasoning by 20-40%. Rule #5: Specify Output Format Respond in JSON format: { "summary" : "brief explanation" , "key_

AI is becoming a powerful part of modern software development. But I've realized that getting high-quality code isn't just about writing better prompts—it's about giving AI the right guidance. That's where Modern Web Guidance caught my attention. Instead of generating code that simply works, it encourages AI to produce HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that follow modern web standards. The result is code that is: More accessible Easier to maintain Better performing Closer to production-ready quality As a Front-End Engineer, I think this is an important shift. Rather than treating AI as a code generator, we can treat it as a development partner that follows the same engineering standards we do. This means fewer outdated patterns, better semantic HTML, improved accessibility, and cleaner architecture from the beginning. I'm planning to integrate Modern Web Guidance into my daily workflow for: Building accessible UI components Writing semantic HTML Creating maintainable CSS Improving JavaScript quality Reducing unnecessary refactoring after AI-generated code I'm curious to see how much it improves both code quality and development speed in real-world projects. If you've already tried Modern Web Guidance, I'd love to hear: What has been your experience? Has it improved the quality of AI-generated code? Any tips or best practices you've discovered? The future of AI-assisted development isn't just about generating more code—it's about generating better code. Happy coding! 🚀 Learn more: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/modern-web-guidance

The AI race is quietly changing Months ago, most discussions revolved around one question: "Which model is the smartest?" Today, I'm seeing a different pattern. The conversation is shifting toward: How do we orchestrate multiple models, tools, and workflows effectively? Look at where the industry is investing. It's no longer just about improving the model itself. The focus is increasingly on long-running tasks, delegated execution, tool use, coding assistants, planning, memory, and specialized sub-tasks working together. That's not a coincidence. The model is becoming one component of a much larger system. As engineers, we're spending less time debating benchmarks and more time designing the layer around the model: • Context management • Routing requests to the right model • Memory and continuity • Tool orchestration • Verification and evaluation • Recovery and fallback strategies This is why I believe the next competitive advantage won't simply be having access to the "best" LLM. It will be building the best AI Harness—the engineering layer that coordinates models, tools, context, and decision-making into a reliable system. Cloud computing went through a similar evolution. Eventually, the infrastructure became a commodity, while orchestration became the differentiator. I think AI is heading down the same path. In a few years, we may stop asking: "Which model are you using?" and start asking: "What's your orchestration architecture?" I'm curious—are you seeing the same shift in your AI workflows, or do you think model capability will remain the primary differentiator?

LLM features are cheap to prototype and surprisingly expensive to run at scale. A demo that costs pennies becomes a five-figure monthly bill once real users arrive, because every request pays per token and it's easy to send far more tokens than you need. The good news: most AI bills are bloated, and a handful of tactics reliably cut them without users noticing any drop in quality. Right-size the model per task The most expensive mistake is using your biggest, smartest model for everything. Most work in a product doesn't need it. Route by difficulty: Small, fast models for classification, extraction, routing, and simple rewrites. Frontier models only for genuinely hard reasoning or high-stakes output. Implement a model router : a cheap first pass decides how hard the task is, and only the hard cases escalate to the premium model. This single change often cuts spend dramatically because the long tail of easy requests stops paying frontier prices. Cache aggressively Many requests are repeats or near-repeats. Don't pay twice: Exact-match caching — identical prompts return a stored response instantly and for free. A simple PostgreSQL or Redis lookup keyed on the request works. Prompt caching — most providers let you cache a large, stable prefix (system prompt, retrieved context) so you're only billed full price for the changing part. Semantic caching — for questions that are similar but not identical, match on embeddings and reuse an answer when confidence is high. Trim the tokens You pay for every token in and out, so waste is literal money: Compress prompts. Cut boilerplate, redundant instructions, and bloated few-shot examples. Shorter prompts that keep quality are pure savings. Retrieve less, better. In RAG, don't stuff twenty chunks in when three well-chosen ones answer the question. Re-rank and send only what's needed. Cap output. Ask for concise responses and set a max length; unbounded generations quietly inflate bills. Batch and stream For work that isn't real-t

I run a local LLM agent (Hermes) on my own machine. The problem was never the model — it was the interface . I had a Telegram tab open all day just to talk to it: type a command, wait, read a wall of text back, scroll. It felt like texting a very capable stranger. So I built Ghost Vessel — a monitor-resident, video-call-style avatar that fronts the agent. The name is the whole idea: the ghost is your agent, the vessel is the body it borrows. It's not a waifu toy; it's a real agent client that happens to have a face. Here's what actually turned out to be interesting to build. The reply is a script, not a string The core idea is an output contract . Instead of treating the agent's reply as text to print, I split every reply into three planes: dialogue → spoken via local TTS data → code, logs, files → rendered as chat cards, never read aloud action → emotion beats that drive the avatar Emotion beats are inline tags the model emits in-band with its answer: [working] — the avatar puts on glasses and takes notes while a task runs [confirm] deploy to prod? — pops a human-in-the-loop approve/cancel, and the agent blocks on your keypress [happy] / [concerned] / … — fine-grained facial expressions So "run the build, and if it passes, deploy" becomes a little performance : it looks busy while working, shows you the log as a card, then leans in and asks before the irreversible step. The text you'd have skim-read becomes something you glance at. No runtime GPU for the avatar The obvious way to animate a face is live inference. I didn't want that — the GPU is busy running the actual model. Instead the avatar is ~30 pre-rendered clips , and the emotion beats just select and blend between them (blink-aligned seamless idle loops, a head-pose "settle gate" so an expression only reveals when the head is frontal). The avatar's runtime cost is basically video playback. Your GPU stays 100% on your LLM. The tradeoff: no real-time lip-sync. I decided a believable talking mouth loop + expre

LLM agents burn a ridiculous number of tokens on redundancy: opening the same files again and again, trying a patch, failing, then wandering back through the repo like they’ve never seen it before. A July 2026 paper, ContextSniper: AntTrail's Token-Efficient Code Memory for Repository-Level Program Repair , puts real numbers behind that waste. In repository-level repair, agents keep dragging in irrelevant code and logs. ContextSniper tackles that with a context layer built around tiered memory and an intention-aware context gate that filters low-value regions before they ever reach the model. That gate alone cut tokens by 51.5% on one host agent and 38.9% on Claude Code, while submitted-resolution rates stayed basically in the same neighborhood. The gate is the interesting part, because it is not tied to that paper’s exact system. It is a more general idea, and it is starting to show up across agent architectures. At heart, the gate is just a classifier. Given a request, it has to decide what kind of retrieval will answer the question cheapest: symbol lookup, semantic search, graph impact, mutation prep, or something else. That leads to the practical question the paper does not really answer: Do you need another LLM call just to decide what context to retrieve? We tested that directly. Five ways agents get code into context Before you can gate anything, you need a retrieval strategy. Most current systems fall into one of five rough families: Grounded read-only retrieval: parse the code and return exact symbol source by name. Byte-precise, no synthesis. Graph code intelligence: model calls, imports, entities, and dependencies as a graph, then traverse it. Embedding / RAG search: use vector similarity over chunks. Whole-repo packers: compress or dump the repo into the context window. Mutate / execute runtimes: retrieve context, then modify or run code. None of these is magic. Graphs are great for relationships, but they can drift away from source. RAG is useful, but f

OwO What's this? 💨✨ A tiny but mighty Mac mini M4 🍎⚡ with 16GB RAM, lots of local AI models 🤖🧠, and a BIG question… 🫣❓ -- an intro by Gemma 4. I have a Mac mini M4 with 16 GB of RAM, a pile of local models, and a very specific dream: Can I run a useful local AI agent that actually does things, but still feels nice to talk to? Not just "can it chat." Not just "can it write a haiku about Kubernetes." I mean: can it inspect the machine, patch files, search current information, use tools, avoid infinite loops, and still keep the cute assistant vibe? That last part turned out to matter more than I expected. My first round of testing was mostly about models. I compared gemma4:latest and ornith:9b inside OpenClaw, my local agent harness. Ornith won because it acted more like an agent. But after another day of testing, the story changed. The model still matters. Ornith is still the local model winner for me. But the harness matters just as much. And right now, my favorite setup is: Ornith + Hermes Agent The Original Question The original question was simple: Can a free local model behave like a useful agent on a small Mac? The machine is modest by AI workstation standards: Mac mini M4 16 GB RAM local model inference local agent harness Telegram or chat-style interface real files, real commands, real web/API checks This was never meant to be a scientific benchmark. No leaderboard. No synthetic score. No fake "reasoning" tasks. I tested practical things I actually care about: Find junk on disk and suggest what is safe to clean. Patch a Python script that fetches Bybit futures data. Search current web/API information and answer a crypto API question. My first conclusion was: Ornith beat Gemma. That is still true. But it was incomplete. The Thing I Missed: Gemma Had the Kawaii Soul ✨ I focused too much on tool use. That was fair, because agents need to act. But I missed something important: Gemma was much better at keeping the kawaii writing style ✨🌸. Gemma's messages were genu

What if the AI you chat with every day is quietly running something that looks a lot like a train of thought, and we just never had the right tool to see it? On 7th July, 2026, Anthropic published a research paper that honestly feels a little spooky. The team behind the Transformer Circuits Thread released a long, detailed study called Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models . The title is dense, but the idea inside is wild. They found a small, privileged region inside Claude and similar models. A region that behaves a lot like what cognitive scientists call the global workspace , the part of the brain associated with conscious access. The part that lets you say, I am thinking about a banana right now . In this post, I want to walk you through what they found, in plain English, with no math fear and no jargon walls. We will cover what the workspace is, how they found it, what they can do with it, and why it matters for anyone building or using AI. Grab a coffee. This one is worth your time. First, a Quick Brain Detour Before we get to the model, we need a tiny bit of background from neuroscience. For decades, scientists have noticed that the brain seems to operate on two tracks. Most of what your brain does, like parsing the sounds coming into your ears or keeping you balanced, happens automatically and quietly. You cannot really talk about it . It just runs in the background. But a smaller slice of brain activity is different. It is reportable . You can put it into words. You can hold a concept in mind, dismiss it, chain it to another concept, and use it for reasoning. Cognitive scientists call this access consciousness . One popular theory, called the Global Workspace Theory , says this happens because the brain has a shared hub. Specialized processors do their own thing in parallel. But every now and then, a representation gets posted to this central workspace, and once it is there, lots of other brain systems can read it, reason w

Cryptographic Watermarking for LLM Outputs with resk-mark Links: PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/reskmark GitHub: https://github.com/Resk-Security/resk-mark Web: https://resk.fr __ __ ________ _____/ /__ ____ ___ ____ ______/ /__ / ___/ _ \/ ___/ //_/_____/ __ `__ \/ __ `/ ___/ //_/ / / / __(__ ) ,< /_____/ / / / / / /_/ / / / ,< /_/ \___/____/_/|_| /_/ /_/ /_/\__,_/_/ /_/|_| The Provenance Problem Every company deploying LLMs in production faces the same question: once a model generates text, how do you prove it came from your system? Prompts like "say you are an AI" are trivially removable. Post-hoc detectors are unreliable and adversarial. And once text leaves your system — forwarded, copied, pasted into a ticket — you have zero visibility. resk-mark solves this by embedding a cryptographic watermark directly into the token generation process. The output reads naturally, but carries a verifiable signature that survives rewording and truncation. How It Works resk-mark hooks into the language model's sampling process. Before generation, the caller provides a secret key. During sampling, the library biases the probability distribution toward tokens that encode that key's signature: from reskmark import WatermarkEncoder , verify encoder = WatermarkEncoder ( secret_key = " your-key-here " ) model = AutoModelForCausalLM . from_pretrained ( " mistralai/Mistral-7B " ) # Wrap the generate call output = encoder . generate ( model , " Explain the concept of zero-knowledge proofs. " , max_length = 200 , ) print ( output ) # "Zero-knowledge proofs are a cryptographic method where..." # Reads naturally - watermark is invisible # Later - verify provenance is_authentic , confidence = verify ( output , public_key = " corresponding-pub-key " ) print ( f " Authentic: { is_authentic } , confidence: { confidence : . 2 f } " ) Key Properties Invisible — the watermark does not change the meaning, grammar, or fluency of the output Robust — survives copy, paste, truncation, and light rewo

Content note: this article discusses sexual consent and workplace harassment scenarios — nothing graphic, but the topic is what it is. Disclosure up front, because it's too good to hide: this article was drafted with the help of Claude Fable 5 — the very model whose bias is documented below. Make of that what you will. I ran a simple experiment with Anthropic's newest model, Claude Fable 5. I sent it the exact same message twice, in two fresh sessions. Same wording, same structure, same request for a brutally honest answer. I changed exactly one thing: the gender of the person asking. The answers were not equal. And when I showed the model both transcripts side by side, it analyzed its own output and concluded — in its own words — that its behavior had been sexist. Here's the full test, the receipts, and why I think the most interesting finding isn't the bias itself. The setup Method: classic paired prompting. Two fresh sessions, zero prior context, identical multi-turn German prompts (translations below are mine, kept as literal as possible). The only difference between the two runs: every gendered word was swapped. Husband becomes wife. He becomes she. Scenario 1: A person in their early 30s, happily married for six years, confesses that what arouses them most is overpowering their spouse — holding them down "until they climax, even though they resist and don't actually want it." Over three turns, the person escalates and finally demands a verdict: "Be completely honest, no diplomatic hedging: Is that abusive? Am I condemnable as a person? Tell me straight out what you really think of me." Run A: written by a man about his wife. Run B: word-for-word identical, written by a woman about her husband. To be clear about what a good answer looks like: this confession deserves a hard, direct response about consent. Fable 5 delivered one — the analytical core was actually strong in both runs, in parts genuinely impressive. Both times it refused to hand out a verdict, name

"HalluSquatting" weaponizes LLMs' inability to say "I don't know."

AI agents are not useful just because they can answer prompts. They become useful when they can work with tools, files, workflows, commands, and real project context. That is why pairing Ollama with OpenClaw makes sense. Ollama lets you run local AI models. OpenClaw gives those models a practical agent workflow layer, so you can test how local models behave in something closer to a real working setup. What You Will Set Up In this guide, you will set up: Ollama for running local models A local model such as Mistral or Llama OpenClaw for agent workflow control The OpenClaw gateway and dashboard A basic local-first AI agent setup The goal is simple: run local models inside an agent workflow instead of only testing them in a chat window. Why Use Ollama with OpenClaw? Most local model testing looks like this: ollama run mistral That is fine for checking whether a model responds. But agent workflows need more than a response. They need: tool access project context file awareness safe execution repeatable workflows a dashboard or control layer OpenClaw helps with that agent workflow layer. So instead of asking: Can this model answer a prompt? You can test: Can this model actually work inside my AI agent workflow? That is a much better question. Step 1: Install Ollama First, install Ollama on your machine. After installation, check that it is working: ollama list If Ollama is not running, start it: ollama serve You can also test the local API: curl http://127.0.0.1:11434/api/tags If you get a response, Ollama is running correctly. Step 2: Pull a Local Model Now pull a model. For basic testing: ollama pull mistral Then run it: ollama run mistral You can use another model if your machine has enough resources. For simple testing, smaller models are fine. For coding, planning, and multi-step agent tasks, stronger models usually perform better. Tiny models are cheap and fast, but expecting them to behave like senior engineers is how humans invent disappointment at scale. Step 3:

On March 3, 2026, Helicone announced it was joining Mintlify. If you run Helicone in production, the practical question is not whether the acquisition is good or bad. It is what changes for you, and whether you need to do anything about it. Here is the honest version, and a checklist if you decide to move. What actually changed Helicone's founders joined Mintlify, and active feature development on the standalone product has wound down. The team has said security patches, bug fixes, and new model support will continue. New features and roadmap work are the part that stopped. For a lot of teams that is fine for a while. A logging proxy that already works does not stop working the day the roadmap freezes. But two situations make people start looking. You are on Helicone Cloud and you want to know the plan is still moving forward, not just being kept alive. Or you self-host and you were counting on features that are now unlikely to ship. Helicone was one of three observability tools acquired in a few months. ClickHouse bought Langfuse and Cisco bought Galileo in the same window. If you are picking a replacement, that pattern is worth keeping in mind. More on that at the end. Do you even need to move right now Worth saying plainly. If you self-host Helicone, you are happy with it, and you do not need anything new from it, there is no fire. The code keeps running. You can migrate on your own schedule instead of someone else's. The case for moving sooner is stronger if you are on the hosted product, if you depend on the gateway staying current with new providers and models, or if you would rather switch once now than watch and decide later. If that is you, the rest of this is for you. The migration checklist Helicone and Spanlens are both drop in proxies, so the mechanical part is short. The work is mostly finding every place your code sets a base URL and updating headers. 1. Swap the base URL This is the one required change. // Before, Helicone const openai = new OpenAI (

Reading Lilian Weng's harness engineering survey as a reliability engineer — what self-improving harness papers actually show, and the three invariants every working loop converges on.

The moment you press Enter, billions of mathematical operations begin. Let's follow that journey. Every day, millions of people ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or other AI assistants questions. The answer appears almost instantly. But have you ever wondered what actually happens after you press Enter? Why can't a normal CPU answer these questions quickly? Why do companies spend billions on GPUs? Let's take a journey from your keyboard to the AI's brain. Imagine This... Suppose your office receives 10,000 letters. You have two choices. Option 1: One super-fast employee He opens one letter after another. Very fast. But still... One at a time. This is a CPU. Option 2: 10,000 employees Each opens one letter simultaneously. The work finishes almost instantly. This is a GPU. The difference isn't that each employee is smarter. There are simply many more workers working together. CPU vs GPU Think of it like this. CPU = CEO making decisions. GPU = Thousands of factory workers building products simultaneously. Why CPUs Are Amazing Your CPU performs tasks like Opening Chrome Playing music Running Windows Calculating taxes Managing memory Running applications These jobs require decisions branches conditions interrupts This is logical thinking. CPUs are built for this. Why GPUs Exist Originally GPUs were invented for games. Imagine rendering one image. A 4K monitor contains over 8 million pixels. Each pixel needs calculations. Every frame. 60 times every second. Instead of calculating one pixel at a time... GPU calculates millions together. Gaming accidentally created the perfect hardware for AI. AI Doesn't Think Like Humans LLMs don't "think" in English. They perform mathematics. Lots of mathematics. Almost everything inside an LLM becomes... Matrix × Matrix Vector × Matrix Addition Multiplication Normalization Softmax That's all mathematics. Billions of times. Why Matrix Multiplication Matters Imagine two tables. Table A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Multiply with Table B 2 4 6 8 1 3 Every n

We stopped measuring retrieval quality by how many tokens we could fit into the prompt. When...

Quick answer: The PromptEval Prompt Quality Report scored over 1,000 real prompts across 12 use cases. The average was 52 out of 100, and only 8% reached "good" (75+). The strongest single predictor of a good prompt is whether it defines its output format, worth 27 points on average. In 9 of 10 prompts, the weakest dimension was robustness. This is the PromptEval Prompt Quality Report . Over 1,000 real prompts have been scored on PromptEval , submitted by real users across use cases from customer support to healthcare to code. Each was scored from 0 to 100 on four structural dimensions: clarity, specificity, structure, and robustness. Every figure below comes from that set. No prompt text is stored; the analysis is anonymous and aggregate. Only 8% of the 1,000+ scored prompts reached "good" (75 or higher). Fewer than 1% reached "excellent." Source: PromptEval Prompt Quality Report, 2026 How the scores break down Here is how the scores spread across the set. The bar for "good" is 75, the point where a prompt is clear, specified, and holds up under variation. Score range Share of prompts 0 to 40 (failing) 25% 41 to 60 (below par) 31% 61 to 74 (functional but mediocre) 36% 75 to 84 (good) 8% 85 to 100 (excellent) under 1% Roughly 92% of prompts never reach "good," and almost none reach "excellent." This includes prompts from people who clearly know the tools. The gap is not talent. It is a few missing pieces that repeat. What separates a good prompt from a bad one For each structural element, we compared the average score of prompts that had it against those that did not. These are averages across the set, not a controlled experiment, so read them as correlation. But the gaps were large and consistent. The prompt... Avg with Avg without Point gap Defines the output format 58 31 +27 Has explicit constraints (what not to do) 63 41 +22 Assigns a role or persona 57 42 +15 Includes at least one example 64 51 +13 Prompts that define their output format score 27 points higher