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    Comment #47425582

    Happy to explain how the scoring works since that’s the obvious first question. The core idea is: Safety Score = 100 − riskScore The risk score is based on structural prompt proper…

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    Show HN: CLI to score AI prompts after a prod failure

    About six months ago I shipped a customer-facing feature where the system prompt had a subtle ambiguity in the instruction hierarchy. Within two days, users found a natural-languag…

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    Comment #47416144

    The tricky part is that prompts can look “correct” but still behave unpredictably depending on phrasing.

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    Comment #47416121

    We ran into something similar with API costs — small changes in behavior can have surprisingly large downstream effects.

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    Comment #47416096

    This resonates — most of the hard problems show up after you ship, not before.

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    Comment #47416070

    Feels like we have great tooling for code, but prompts are still mostly trial-and-error. Curious how people are validating them today.

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    Comment #47416043

    I’ve been noticing the same — a lot of failures aren’t obvious “jailbreaks,” they’re just subtle prompt structure issues that only show up in production.