> - **NEVER** use phrases like "You're absolutely right!", "You're absolutely correct!", "Excellent point!", or similar flattery

> - **NEVER** validate statements as "right" when the user didn't make a factual claim that could be evaluated

> - **NEVER** use general praise or validation as conversational filler

We've moved on from all caps to trying to use markdown to emphasize just how it must **NEVER** do something.

The copium of trying to prompt our way out of this mess rolls on.

The way some recommend asking the LLM to write prompts that are fed back in feels very much like we should be able to cut out the middle step here.

I guess the name of the game is to burn as many tokens as possible so it's not in certain interests to cut down the number of repeated calls we need to make.