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Comment by perching_aix

Could you unearth that story?

I don't see why giving an agent the access necessary to perform actions would be "unhealthy prompting". It's the whole game. Either you can trust it or not. Every other way quickly devolves into a whack a mole guardrails game with very early diminishing returns, for very good reasons.

Now if they kept writing in a very misleading way or in broken English though, or omitted crucial unknowable context...

People who are not particularly online tend to be terrible at writing messages of any kind in my experience, including agent prompts. They fail to properly distinguish what's obvious and what isn't, and how things come across tonally, simply because they're not used to the medium. So this I can imagine.

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