Imran Khan

AI Research Engineer at YC Startup.

I discovered that better prompts can make smarter AI worse. Fascinated by emergent behaviors in LLMs.

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Is complex prompt engineering a trap for advanced AI models? 🤯

My new paper finds that the "best" prompts for a model like GPT-4o actually HARM the performance of GPT-5.

I call this the "Prompting Inversion" effect. Here’s what I discovered 👇

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e.g. make x do y and ensure z. then verify a,b,c aren't affected but d,e,f are updated. ensure this doesn't break g,h,i. make sure ui and design stays consistent.

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my boss literally assigns me tasks like he is prompting claude.

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https://t.co/cayeB9hNfX

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Can you steer an oil tanker out of the Hormuz blockades?

I made this simulator for oil tankers stranded in Hormuz.

Quite Fun. I am already addicted.

Link Below 👇🏻

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My dear Claude is down today.

Pls leave a msg to lift his spirits 🙏

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@MelonTeee Mealy bugs are the worst. They destroy and dry out the entire plant in a week if you let them thrive. they keep coming back no matter the amount of soap water, neem oil you spray on it. Likely, insecticides are the only solution, but then you can't eat the fruit. I am devastated.

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Every AI slop post on socials:

- This is not X, this is Y
- it's not X, it's Y
- this does not X, this does Y
- it's not about X, it's about Y

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claude is down ;(

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claude is down? how am i supposed to work now?

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The whole point of Yuji's existence was to be a vessel that can contain Sukuna.

But even Megumi was able to contain Sukuna.

So there was no point in kenjaku biohacking cursed womb vessels.

Why did Gehe even write the character of Yuji?

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@GergelyOrosz the only thing they can actually get here is overusage against ToS.

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@AnthropicAI I fail to understand how this escaped throttling at every layer of ip traffic, email/org users, card checks, region limits, bot activity, and unusual usage patterns?

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It's been a while since any new JS/CSS/React Frameworks dropped.

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@qtnx_ Sleep 7.8 hours a night

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Daily Aches 🥹

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No one from @AnthropicAI is helping me with these issues i am seeing since yesterday.

Has anyone solved this themselves?

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What would this be about?

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hi

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https://t.co/Ge5KmwP5km

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Is Dan Brown a time traveller?

- theft at the louvre
- worldwide virus
- ai eating the world